“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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“But he didnt want to be thought of as a fool. To walk around the town fully dressed and yet appear naked to the world was a shame he couldn't bear.”
― Carsten Jensen, quote from We, the Drowned
“That they have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fought so hard to stay alive.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“ANTIGONE Yea, for these laws were not ordained of Zeus, And she who sits enthroned with gods below, Justice, enacted not these human laws. Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man, Could’st by a breath annul and override The immutable unwritten laws of Heaven. They were not born today nor yesterday; They die not; and none knoweth whence they sprang. I was not like, who feared no mortal’s frown, To disobey these laws and so provoke The wrath of Heaven. I knew that I must die, E’en hadst thou not proclaimed it; and if death Is thereby hastened, I shall count it gain. For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery. Thus my lot appears Not sad, but blissful; for had I endured To leave my mother’s son unburied there, I should have grieved with reason, but not now. And if in this thou judgest me a fool, Methinks the judge of folly’s not acquit.”
― Sophocles, quote from The Complete Plays
“Dead yet?" Gus answered.
I smirked. "Not yet, but the night's still young."
"Here's hoping.”
― Jessica Shirvington, quote from Disruption
“To darkness are they doomed who worship only the body, and to greater darkness they who worship only the spirit.”
― quote from The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
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