254 Quotes by Courtney Summers

My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl’s sport, but it’s not. It’s armor.

Because Tina and I have never conducted ourselves in such an unladylike manner before, Diaz says we’re getting off easier than we would have otherwise. I want to ask her what unladylike means.

People don’t change. They just get better at hiding who they really are.

I press my hands against my face and split myself in two. Push away the side that’s the truth because that’s the side that wants to be angry at him for how wrong he is because of all the things he doesn’t know. I focus on the side I’ve shown to him. There’s so much missing, but it’s better that it’s missing. And as long as it’s missing, that makes everything he’s saying to me now – right.

She hates her heart, that misguided organ in her chest. Why didn’t it warn her?

Helen Turner hates me and the way Helen Turner hates me feels like the worst kind of betrayal. A woman who doesn’t think about daughters she doesn’t have.

It was a terrible thing, sure, but we live in a world that has no shortage of terrible things. You can’t stop for all of them.

It’s kind of like stumbling upon the scene of an accident. Once you’ve looked, you’re part of it. Especially if you walk away.

Now is not about gathering courage, it’s about staying one step ahead of my fear.