254 Quotes by Courtney Summers

He came here quiet – not shy, but removed, above it all. Like he just didn’t care about us.

I have never been kissed the way I want to be kissed and I have never been touched the way I want to be touched. I don’t often let myself think of it, but ever since I saw that video, I can’t seem to stop.

Whatever’s between us is that kind of new.

I hate the people who live here. May Beth always told me I can’t do that; I can’t hate people for having more than me, but she’s wrong. I can. I do.

Times like these, you go so far out of your way to assure yourself you’re not alone. You memorize the person you’re with: the way they breathe, the way they move, the warmth of their body. All these things, you reach for every second of the day and when they’re gone, you don’t even have to open your eyes to know it. She’s gone.

When I was nineteen and Mattie was thirteen, Keith came back. I turn the switchblade one more time in my sweaty palm, feeling the weight of its neat black handle and the unforgiving blade tucked inside. It was his, a long time ago. It’s mine now. I’m going to carve my name into his soul.

Is this what it’s like to get close to other people – you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don’t really want to?

How do you say that physically, you’re okay, when everything is not.

I make sure to tell her I love her because more and more, I’m thinking about the last things I say before I leave.