254 Quotes by Courtney Summers

A used bookstore. Paperback carnage. Books ripped apart, spines broken pages everywhere. Stories so far past their usefulness.

I live in a place that’s only good for leaving.

Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.

Dad was thirsty, not given to great displays of affection, like his father and his father’s father before him. A long line of self-indulgent men who couldn’t give love but lived to take it, which isn’t the same as receiving it. They were all in so much pain and that’s always the perfect excuse.

They cry for her and twist their hands in a way they never would for me. This is what happens when a girl befalls a fate no one thinks she deserves.

I’ve been variations of hurt my whole life.

Jake and Chris talk through art and discover they have so much in common it’s amazing. Like, They Could Be Boyfriends If They Didn’t Like Vaginas So Much Amazing.

I’m afraid everything I was is gone and all that’s left is everything I’m not.

I’m dying. I am dying. I have finally achieved what I set out to do. My heart is splitting open and I breathe in but no air gets into my lungs.