254 Quotes by Courtney Summers

For that brief period when everything ugly is covered under the sparkle of something so new, the world almost feels like it’s living up to its potential.

I reach for the pettiest thing I can think of because no one has a hard time believing how petty a girl can be.

I’m struck by how amazing it is and how sad that makes me, because I’ve never seen that. He’s not like that around me. The way his mouth quirks and lights up his eyes. He should smile more often. It’s so innocent.

I’m hazy on remembering or maybe I’m just tired or maybe a part of my brain wants to sabotage me. page-208.

And that I miss her, that I need her, and this kind of missing, this kind of need, the kind of emptiness it leaves behind is worse than waking up one day and finding the whole world has collapsed in on itself, that I was over longer before it was.

I walk over to the window and peer out at the party. I like it better from this distance, away from everyone. Safe.

I hide in the bathroom, in the stall farthest from the door and become a tableau of a girl crouched stupidly on a toilet seat, so she won’t be seen. Over the hour, girls come in and out, in and out. I can’t stand every boring, worthless piece of conversation I overhear because they make me wish I could be a part of them, be some nobody girl with nothing to say.

Becky, you’re only standing there because I decided I didn’t want to.

Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.