Courtney Summers > Quotes

“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

“People don't change. They just get better at hiding who they really are.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“How does it feel to know that even at my worst, you're still not good enough?”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

“But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

“Every little thing about you can be a weapon, if you're clever enough.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Imagine 4 years.
Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies (one abortion), three overdoses, countless drunken antics, pantsings, spilled food, theft, fights, broken limbs, turf wars–every day, a turf war–six months until graduation and no one gets a medal when they get out. But everything you do here counts.

High school.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

“You know all the ways you can kill a girl?

God, there are so many.”
― Courtney Summers, All the Rage

“The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it’s a cry for help. It wasn’t.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

“I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she left anyway."

"But you didn't die," He says.

"I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.”
― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test

“You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

“I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared. I opened my eyes and I felt it go.”
― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test

“I don't believe in forgiveness. I think if you hurt someone, it becomes part of you both. Each of you just has to live with it and the person you hurt gets to decide if they want to give you the chance to do it again. If they do and you're a good person, you won't make the same mistakes. Just whole new ones.”
― Courtney Summers, All the Rage

“I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.'
'I don't like you with Jake. He's not me.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

“I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it's there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“It was a terrible thing, sure, but we live in a world that has no shortage of terrible things. You can't stop for all of them.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“And Sadie, if you’re out there, please let me know. Because I can’t take another dead girl.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“I'm always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.”
― Courtney Summers, Fall for Anything

“I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

“I realized pretty early on that the who didn’t really matter so much. That anybody who listens to me, I end up loving them just a little.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

“It'll h-heal f-fine.'
'It'll heal ugly.'
But most things do.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“I'm not afraid to be alone like you are.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

“Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

“How do you forgive the people who are supposed to protect you?”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also don’t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour it’s like there’s nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or you’d be crushed under the weight of it.”
― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test

“My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.”
― Courtney Summers, All the Rage

“If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be

“I always forget fear is a conquerable thing but I learn it over and over again and that, I guess, is better than never learning it.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.”
― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be