“Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“I'm not afraid to be alone like you are.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up self-esteem issues into the mix and you have Kara.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“A whole world exists outside of that hellhole.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“I'm struck by how amazing it is and how sad that makes me, because I've never seen that. He's not like that around me. The way his mouth quirks and lights up his eyes. He should smile more often. It's so innocent.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“The repeat is always the killer. Everything inside you goes into saying the word once, but sorry is the kind of word the person you say it to always wants to hear twice. ”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“I think some girls are just fucked up.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“Tell Liz,' I say, 'the mean girl totally got what she deserved in the end.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“Yeah, totally. I punch myself in the arms a lot. It's a real problem.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“I close my eyes and lean my head against the seat, and the word fuck just repeats itself over and over in my head, because fuck.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“I couldn't talk him out of you.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“Because I meant it. But I'm not a good person and I'll never be a good person, so who cares if I meant it, right?”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“I spot a fly floating on the surface of the water, its little legs pumping madly as it fights to keep itself afloat. I know that feeling.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“In high school, you don't get to change. You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
“People have to live with things they don't want to live with all the time, but—how?”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Some Girls Are
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“When you are a presence, there are many things you need not do, for it is simply understood you can do them. So you don’t do them. You don’t risk what you need not risk, you let others’ imaginations do them for you, for they do them better than you can. Like the man who opens his mouth to prove he’s a fool, often the more you do, the more you look like everyone else.”
― Ken Dryden, quote from The Game
“The man raised his glass, 'To you!'
Can't you think of a wittier toast?'
Something was beginning to irritate him about the girl's game. Now sitting face to face with her, he realized it wasn't just the words which were turning her into a stranger, but that her whole persona had changed, the movements of her body and her facial expression, and that she unpalatably and faithfully resembled that type of woman whom he knew so well and for whom he felt some aversion.
And so (holding his glass in his raised hand), he corrected his toast: 'O.K., then I won't drink to you, but to your kind, in which are combined so successfully the better qualities of the animal and the worse aspects of the human being.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from Laughable Loves
“Though it was dark, I could see how his eyes came alive with enthusiasm and the way he used his hands to illustrate with surprising grace. There were hidden depths beneath that impassive exterior. A sweet kernel shielded by a tough shell; dancing fire concealed in stone.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Cybele's Secret
“Bumblestripe: “I think we showed them.”
Hazeltail: “Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Night Whispers
“During the interval between her divorce and her remarriage she had learned what things cost, but not how to do without them; and money still seemed to her like some mysterious and uncertain stream which occasionally vanished underground but was sure to bubble up again at one's feet.”
― Edith Wharton, quote from The Custom of the Country
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