79 Quotes by Paula Stokes

I’ve read so many stories online about how tragedy brings people together, how hard times encourage bravery and sacrifice, how a crisis can turn ordinary folks into heroes. But what about the opposite, when something horrible happens and it strips us bare, exposing weaknesses we didn’t even know we had. What about when tragedy makes people worse?

Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. It’s been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was.

We’re like magnets, you know. Only I’m spinning, so I keep pulling you in and then pushing you away. I like you, but then you hurt me, so I run. I like you, but then something makes things feel impossible, so I turn away. And you. You’re so constant. Your orientation never wavers. You feel what you feel and you want what you want without hesitation or doubt. God, I envy that. I feel like if someone stripped away my hesitation and doubt that there’d be nothing left.

Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing exactly what and who is worth fighting for.

It’s not right that some people have so much and others have so little.

No really, Lainey. Give it a chance. Millions of readers can't be wrong.""That's like saying millions of boy-band fans can't be wrong," I mutter, but I flip through a few more pages.

But the truth is, pretending something didn't happen doesn't make it less real. it just makes 'me' less real.

The world needs more beautiful things.

Lainey is hot in a prom queen kind of way and we used to be friends back in grade school, but that was two lifetimes ago. Now she’s a varsity soccer player and card-carrying popular girl who hangs out with the kind of mean girls and douchebags who get killed first in horror movies.