“You know all the ways you can kill a girl?
God, there are so many.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I don't believe in forgiveness. I think if you hurt someone, it becomes part of you both. Each of you just has to live with it and the person you hurt gets to decide if they want to give you the chance to do it again. If they do and you're a good person, you won't make the same mistakes. Just whole new ones.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Because teenage girls don't pray to God, they pray to each other. They clasp their hands over a keyboard and then they let it all out, a (stupid) girl's heart tucked into another girl's heart.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I wish I didn’t have a body, sometimes.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“But just because something starts out sweet doesn’t mean it won’t push itself so far past anything you could call sweet anymore. And if it all starts like this, how do you see what’s coming?”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“There’s a miracle there, but there’s something so awful about it too, bringing someone into all this now, this world where a girl can’t even trust a drink that passes her lips. I can’t figure out the kind of heart it takes to do something like that.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“It’s kind of like stumbling upon the scene of an accident. Once you’ve looked, you’re part of it. Especially if you walk away.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“He was planning to rape me -"
"Why would he ever -"
"Because he knew he'd get away with it.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“It’s something my body does without checking with my head first, like the obligation to be nice to him is greater than myself.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I want to shove the question down his throat until he chokes on it.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Everyone who knows her loves her. Except people hurt the people they love all the time.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Cell phones don’t run as fast as the mouths in this town.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Her eyes widen and she shoves me back and then there's a space between us, enough to paralyze me with all of the things I could do to her next. I could raise my hand and hit her in the face or bring my knee into her stomach, take a fistful of her hair and rip it out of her skull. You don't get to do this when you're a girl, so when the opportunity for violence finally presents itself, I want all of it at once.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“He’s the boy who stopped and I’m the girl he stopped for and what happens to her, if he goes away?”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“It’s so hard not to enjoy this because how can you put something so golden, a girl who can barely open her eyes or her mouth—how can you put something like that in front of them and expect them to be better people?”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“There’s a girl out there everyone thinks is dead and maybe she is because you know all the ways there are to kill a girl? I do.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I don’t know why it’s the girls who always seem to have to take on that kind of burden.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“They cry for her and twist their hands in a way they never would for me. This is what happens when a girl befalls a fate no one thinks she deserves.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“It can’t be wrong to want to see someone because you like the person you are when you’re around them. That’s probably one of the best reasons you could have.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I make sure to tell her I love her because more and more, I’m thinking about the last things I say before I leave.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I pull my sheet up over my head and cover my body. Her body. I wish I didn’t have a body.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I glance at her and she looks soft, not vicious, but a lot of people in this town are a soft kind of vicious.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“And it's not that she tells him it didn't happen, it's that by the time he asks, she no longer has a language of her own. But that's enough. It always is.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Penny Young is the most perfect girl you know and those kinds of girls, they’re put on this earth to break you. Peel back her skin and you can see her poison. Peel back mine, you can still see traces of where her poison’s been.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“Helen Turner hates me and the way Helen Turner hates me feels like the worst kind of betrayal. A woman who doesn’t think about daughters she doesn’t have.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I want to burn a moment of helplessness into him so he can know a fraction of what I felt, what I feel, what’s followed me every moment since, so I You cover cover his her mouth mouth.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“I press my hands against my face and split myself in two. Push away the side that’s the truth because that’s the side that wants to be angry at him for how wrong he is because of all the things he doesn’t know. I focus on the side I’ve shown to him. There’s so much missing, but it’s better that it’s missing. And as long as it’s missing, that makes everything he’s saying to me now—right.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
“The silence stretches between us. Words aren’t so easy to come by, after his admission. It takes him a while to dig some up.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from All the Rage
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“Contained exhilaration is not nearly as exciting as its release…
accept challenge! What excitement do you have to share with the world?”
― Lorii Myers, quote from Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
“I love you, Jeremy.”
He still felt it, that wince of doubt. The urge to push her away. She said it so simply. As though there was nothing easier, more natural in the world. The words themselves hung in the air, so tiny, so bare.
Jeremy felt as though she’d thrust a frail, delicate, birdlike thing into his big, clumsy hands, charging him to keep it safe. And God forgive him, his first impulse was to shove it away. He would destroy it, surely. In his desperation, he would grasp it so tightly it would break into a thousand pieces—and his own heart would break along with it.”
― Tessa Dare, quote from Goddess of the Hunt
“Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it. (p. 163)”
― Geneen Roth, quote from Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
“For the question of abortion, perhaps the most significant passage of all is found in the specific laws God gave Moses for the people of Israel during the time of the Mosaic covenant. One particular law spoke of the penalties to be imposed in case the life or health of a pregnant woman or her preborn child was endangered or harmed: When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe (Exod. 21:22–25).1 This law concerns a situation when men are fighting and one of them accidentally hits a pregnant woman. Neither one of them intended to do this, but as they fought they were not careful enough to avoid hitting her. If that happens, there are two possibilities: 1. If this causes a premature birth but there is no harm to the pregnant woman or her preborn child, there is still a penalty: “The one who hit her shall surely be fined” (v. 22). The penalty was for carelessly endangering the life or health of the pregnant woman and her child. We have similar laws in modern society, such as when a person is fined for drunken driving, even though he has hit no one with his car. He recklessly endangered human life and health, and he deserved a fine or other penalty. 2. But “if there is harm” to either the pregnant woman or her child, then the penalties are quite severe: “Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth …” (vv. 23–24). This means that both the mother and the preborn child are given equal legal protection. The penalty for harming the preborn child is just as great as for harming the mother. Both are treated as persons, and both deserve the full protection of the law.2”
― Wayne A. Grudem, quote from Politics - According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture
“Think about it: Why should we care whether what makes us happy is just an electrical impulse in our brain or something funny that we see some fool do on TV? Does it matter what makes you smile? Wouldn't you rather be happy for no reason than unhappy for good reasons?”
― Terry Trueman, quote from Stuck in Neutral
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