109 Quotes by Amy Reed

I don't know if anyone can ever really explain why they believe in someone. But I do. I believe in you. I hope that's worth something.

...and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.

Everyone's always making fun of him and calling him crazy behind his back, but I can kind of understand how someone would end up that way. I mean, if no one ever pays attention to you telling the truth, then it probably makes sense to try lying for a change.

Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison?

What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep itself alive?

Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse.

This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope.

And now they’re telling me I have to get rid of the only thing that loosens its grip. That’s the irony, isn’t it? [...] The thing that helped has become the thing that imprisons us. We keep feeding it and it keeps wanting more. This is a disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it. This is a disease where the medicine that gives relief is the same thing that kills you.

Getting rid of the drugs doesn’t get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. It’s not that easy.