“Maybe this is all love is and all it will ever be-- boys fucking girls and pretending it's love, girls getting fucked and pretending they like it, saying "I love you, too," and wanting to throw up.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“And that's when it hits me, the punch in the stomach, the carving out of my insides. That's when I realize that none of this is a movie. I will not go out with a bang. There is no ending. There are no credits. I will wake up and I will keep waking up and this will always be waiting for me.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“If you are still, no one can hurt you. If you play dead, there is nothing to kill.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“It feels like the ground is breathing and the air has hands, like everything is moving except me, like I am the only thing solid, like it is the rest of the world that is dizzy.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don't know yet. She is not the chubby girl with the braces and bad perm. She is not the girl hiding in the bathroom at recess. She is someone new, a blank slate they have named beautiful. That is what I am now: beautiful, with this new body and face and hair and clothes. Beautiful, with this erasing of history.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“They are ghosts of people I never knew, which the rain will wash away.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“I want to crush my cigarette on his eyelid. I would rather he keep fucking me for the rest of the night than lie here staring at me tracing my ribs with his fingertips, acting like what happened meant something.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“He backs out the door batting those eyelashes I thought were so sexy when I first met him. Now I want to pluck them out one by one.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“I feel the ghost of his fingers inside me.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“And my name sounds like flowers in his mouth.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“Maybe that's all love is-one person saying it because they think they're supposed to and the other person feeling to guilty to say anything else”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“People don't just let you change identities, not unless there's something in it for them.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“I feel myself floating without the weight of him on my body.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“Smoke is not chasing me and making my eyes sweat. My eyes are not burning. I am not crying. I am not standing behind my mother and she is not facing the wall and she is not saying, 'Smoke follows beauty.' Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“And what they're doing could be called kissing but it's more like sword fighting with tongues.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“There are voices you can silence.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“They said the doctors could tell from the scars."
"Stop."
"Scars can tell you how old the wound is."
"Stop."
"When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet."
"Sarah.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt.
All boys smell bad I say and she nods her head like we have just figured out something very important.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
“Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty.”
― Amy Reed, quote from Beautiful
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“To me, the world sounds warm and hushed.”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher, quote from On the Other Side
“Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you.”
― Ishmael Beah, quote from A Long Way Gone
“If I had to pull an all-nighter studying for a test or too many looming deadlines had me pulling out my hair, I wouldn’t end up with just some trendy coffee addiction. I’d end up in a mini-coma, face down in the middle of the studio or on the floor of the community showers.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, quote from The Girl In Between
“It isn’t very interesting,” my father said. “He just writes things like, ‘Today the Japanese army is closing in around the city.’ Stuff like that.”
― Leslie T. Chang, quote from Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
“courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Jamie Ayres, quote from 18 Things
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