254 Quotes by Courtney Summers

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.

There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or hungry or sad they had to be just you because there could be no other place for them, anywhere. Books that make you realize you’re not alone, you never were. Those are the ones I like best.

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.

Having a sister, mom says, is a place only the two of them will share, made of secrets they never have to say aloud - but if they did, it would be in a language only the two of them could speak. Having a sister is a promise no one but the two of you can make - and no one but the two of you can break.

She says, “Of course,” in the softest voice and something about it further breaks me and I don’t know if it’s the relief that kindness can exist in this world or the guilt of kindness existing in a world that doesn’t deserve it.

I'm going to kill a man.I'm going to steal the light from his eyes. I want to watch it go out. You aren't supposed to answer violence with more violence but sometimes I think violence is the only answer. It’s no less than he did to Mattie, so it's no less than he deserves.

Whatever you're thinking, you get it out of that damned foolish head of yours right now.' Except it's not in my head, it's in my heart, and she's the same woman who told me if you're going to follow anything, it might as well be that. Even if it's a mess.

A body might not always be beautiful, but a boy can be a beautiful deception. I’m stronger than I look.