63 Quotes by Jennifer Brown

I'd spend about an hour, my room darkening around me, wondering what the hell happened to make me so unsure of who I even was. Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world to answer, right? Only for me it hadn't been easy for a very long time.

Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.

You can change a reality of hate by opening up to a friend, by saving an enemy […] but in order to change reality, you have to be willing to listen, and to learn, and to hear, to actually hear.

I understand that it would be easier for you to think of him as a hero. But, Valerie, he did kill a lot of kids. Probably not a lot of people are going to think of him as a hero.

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.

Time's never up", she whispered, not looking at me, but at my canvas. "Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing. Of course there is.

But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.

Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.

you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.