“And maybe some people are like collages - no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?” I opened my mouth to say San Francisco or maybe Madrid—somewhere exotic. But what came out was, “Here. Right here.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“I don’t really know what it means to move on, but lately, with Sky, I’m starting to feel like I want to because when I look at her, I don’t see you or the war or any of the shit in my head. I just see her, and it’s like suddenly I can breathe again after holding my breath for so long.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“He was the parts of the day where I smiled.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“I had to tell him we were like a collage. Pieces that could be put back together in a new way, a better way. If I didn’t say it now, I never would.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“What am I supposed to do when I’m bad for the one good thing in my life?”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“It’s not every day you get to watch the two people you care most about in the world fall in love.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“It gave me hope: if you could make a beautiful piece of art from discarded newspapers and old matchbooks, then it meant that everything had potential. And maybe people were like collages--no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“When the store was empty again, I buried my head in my hands. I hadn’t realized how much Josh had been helping me get through the summer until he wasn’t there anymore. I wanted him to ask me how the Sky was. And then I wanted him to make it stop raining.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“The Josh I grew up around, with two legs and an ego that couldn’t fit through the door? I didn’t love him. I didn’t even always like him.” One corner of his mouth turned up. “This is who you are. The real you.” I rested my forehead against his. “And I want you so fucking bad.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“It occurred to me that we were the same, in a way. Both of us treading water, pushing against forces we couldn’t control.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Maybe all those years when Josh was running around town, acting like an idiot, he was just trying to find a way to escape. Maybe that was what all of us were doing, in our different ways.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Everything—the moon, the fireworks, the fields—had an otherworldly beauty, and I shivered, greedy for these bits of loveliness the universe was throwing our way tonight.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“How could someone hurt you so bad but you still wanted to hold him and tell him it was going to be okay?”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“I needed to hear her voice because everything was getting dark in me and she’s the only light I’ve found since all this shit happened. I just thought, if she would answer, if she would answer, maybe I could, I don’t know, just tell her in the right way why I was so messed up.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“I didn’t want to go there, to those places he was describing, but I didn’t want to be where he wasn’t.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Read it. Just—don’t lose it. It … belonged to a friend of mine.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Kind of. Just—we don’t know what happens when we die, right? I mean, maybe we go up to some perfect place in the sky, or maybe we turn to dust, or we’re spirits and can still think and hear and go places. So talking to the person that’s dead isn’t crazy. They could be listening to you. Right?”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“But my life had suddenly become a Taylor Swift song: breakups and heartache and other girls.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Why is it that some people in the world get to wake up in beautiful houses with fairly normal parents and enough food in the fridge while the rest of us have to get by on the scraps the universe throws at us? And we gobble them up, so grateful. What the hell are we grateful for?”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Did he realize how he was sometimes able to say the perfect thing? Because if he was trying to get in my pants, it was working.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“My movie tastes are more boy meets girl, girl falls in love with boy, and everything’s happy at the end,” I said.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“I didn’t want him to go home and leave me to wrestle my demons alone.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Chris pointed to himself. “This is my Not-Convinced face.” “
This is my Shut-Up face.”
“This is my Oh-My-God-Sky-Is-Getting-It-On-With-Josh-Mitchell face,” Dylan said, looking comically scandalized.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Might as well,” she spit. “You know what it feels like, being friends with you guys? Do you have any idea how it sounds when you talk about how crappy this town is and how you’d rather die than end up saddled with a baby, living in a trailer park, broke as hell? Every time you say that, you’re describing my life. A life I’m actually okay with—I’m sure as hell a lot happier than either of you.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Chess and you taking a picture of me reading Slaughterhouse-Five, telling me I’d need proof someday because nobody in Creek View would ever believe I had actually read a goddamn book, let alone five. Talking about God and why there’s evil in the world and bitching because the Steelers won the Super Bowl. Camp Leatherneck, me not missing home at all and you missing it like crazy, always talking about going to college and how when you had leave you were gonna marry Hannah. And you wanted kids, and I said I didn’t because people like me, we just end up disappointing one another and I’d probably be like my dad, and you told me I had to get over it, get over my dad and my mom and how screwed up everything is because you said, Josh, you’re gonna have it all. I know it. You’re gonna have it all. And for the first time, I’m almost believing that.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Crap.” Like I could just go out and buy a new one—Look at me, I’m so rich I can throw calculators around! I stood and picked it up, shook it. Still worked.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“I really wish that the boy I’m in love with hadn’t slept with three-quarters of the Creek View population,” I said.”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“Was this what it meant to grow up, to move on?”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
Heather Demetrios
Born place: 29 Palms, CA, The United States
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“It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops.”
― Jennifer Weiner, quote from Good in Bed
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
― Margaret Atwood, quote from The Year of the Flood
“Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, quote from No Exit and Three Other Plays
“Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Xenocide
“I try to keep in mind” I recite dryly as I run the front sight of my pistol over his face, “that my life is only as significant, as I am to the lives of others.”
He’s sobbing and won’t look up from the floor so I lean close to his ear and ask softly, “Would you say that I’m significant to your life?”
― Dennis Sharpe, quote from Blood & Spirits
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