“I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just
keep falling and falling and falling.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“Three life lessons:
1.No one will see you.
2.No one will say anything.
3.No one will save you.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“The thing is, you can get used to anything. You think you can't, you want to die, but you don't. You won't. You just are.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“What had been became what
was and a story only works when you know the ending.
When the people in it don’t seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her.
When you don’t already know the story is a lie.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“He never heard my story but he taught me it wasn’t true. It was just pretend but pretending is hard.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“It will be over soon, finally, but the thing about hearts is that they want to keep beating. They want to keep beating.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“This death expert said it's everything underground that makes grass so green. That dead things make the living. I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“Gracia…, esa es mi palabra favorita de la iglesia. Un estado del ser, algo por lo que puedes rezar, algo que Dios te puede conceder, algo que si se puede obtener. La perfección es inalcanzable, pero la gracia…, la gracia puede alcanzarse.”
― Elizabeth Scott, quote from Living Dead Girl
“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Dead Beat
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from The Beautiful and Damned
“You're so secretive, Samantha. We had no idea you liked to run."My eyebrow shot up. "Well, how could you? We've been such great friends since…" I waited a beat and gave my own forced laugh. "Oh, that's right. We're not friends.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest High
“I never said she was evil. Nor was she good. Even in the darkest and most cruel person, there is still a kernel of good. And within the most perfect champion, there is also darkness. The question is, will one give in to the dark or the light? It's something we decide with every choice we make, every day that we exist. What might not be evil to you could be evil to someone else. Knowing this makes us powerful even without magic.”
― Morgan Rhodes, quote from Falling Kingdoms
“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”
― Alison Bechdel, quote from Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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