254 Quotes by Courtney Summers

Her eyes widen and she shoves me back and then there’s a space between us, enough to paralyze me with all of the things I could do to her next. I could raise my hand and hit her in the face or bring my knee into her stomach, take a fistful of her hair and rip it out of her skull. You don’t get to do this when you’re a girl, so when the opportunity for violence finally presents itself, I want all of it at once.

It hits me: that’s going to die with me, that story. My story. My family, everyone in the school, their stories too–I’m the last person who could tell them and if I die, they’re gone.

You can’t buy people with your pain. They’ll just want away from it” -Sadie.

I’m going to kill a man. I’m going to steal the light from his eyes. I want to watch it go out.

Because I meant it. But I’m not a good person and I’ll never be a good person, so who cares if I meant it, right?

Don’t divide me into before and after.

Try to do good for a girl who never did me any favors and it turns out worse than it ever needed to be.

The blinds are drawn and the light in here is so weak, but I would know her silhouette anywhere. I memorized it. She’s here and every moment without her was a lie.

It’s always uncomfortable around a cop, like they somehow know every terrible thing we’ve done or thought about doing.