“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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“Just so you know, I realize that what happened is not in any way okay, but I think we're going to have to pretend like it is.
Because it wasn't okay and never will be. We will power through it; I will continue to power through it-all the stagnant, soul-crushing grief-but it will never be okay that my mom is not here.”
― Julie Buxbaum, quote from Tell Me Three Things
“Aggressive and bellicose persons," said Janet with care, "always assume that unaggressive and pacific persons cannot protect themselves.
"Why is that?”
― Joanna Russ, quote from The Female Man
“Memory was my drug of choice. -Pea Hicks”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor school. Her eyes were fouled with smog and propane spray.”
― Robert Stone, quote from Dog Soldiers
“Here they found themselves year after year- a group of busy, youngish women who had eased their cars impatiently through the archaic streets of Rosedale, who had complained for a week previously about the time lost, the fuss over the children's dresses, and, above all, the boredom, but who were drawn together by a rather implausible allegiance- not so much to Miss Marsalles as to the ceremonies of their childhood, to a more exacting pattern of life which had been breaking apart even then but which survived, and unaccountably still survived, in Miss Marsalles's living room.”
― Alice Munro, quote from Dance of the Happy Shades
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