254 Quotes by Courtney Summers

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.

She died, Penny, you know that? You know all the ways you can kill a girl? God, there are so many.

My dad always said we’re at the mercy of something greater than ourselves and whatever humanity we don’t show to others, we pay for. We’re paying for.

Every little thing about you can be a weapon, if you’re clever enough.

I stare at the crowbar between us. You’ve never truly felt the weight of something like that until you’ve destroyed someone with it.

If you tell a story – something real, something true – you get to be alive in other people. And writing feels like the most... the greatest chance I’ll ever have at being – alive.

He slings his arm around my shoulder. I feel the question after he does it. -Is this okay?- I don’t think it is. I don’t know how to fold myself into him in any way that feels right.

And Sadie, if you’re out there, please let me know. Because I can’t take another dead girl.

Tell Liz,′ I say, ’the mean girl totally got what she deserved in the end.