Diana Urban > Quotes

“It wasn’t our mistakes that defined us, but how we learned to overcome them. Everyone should have a chance to overcome theirs.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“You have your health. Now go after your happiness.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“I was wrong. It's not all for nothing. We're more than a pile of bones.' We're this moment. And the last. And every memory we've ever made. Every recording. Every note. Everything we've created and the lives we've touched. We're our choices, our bravery, our sacrifices. We're forgiveness and strength and the tears we've shed. We're the friendships we've built and the love we've shared. Time might go on without us and our cells might wither to dust, but that doesn't diminish our existence. We all leave a mark on this world.”
― Diana Urban, Under the Surface

“In these halls, those who are forgotten protect those who have forgotten.”
― Diana Urban, Under the Surface

“I shook my head, not even knowing where to start. “I’m just tired. I’m tired of trying to make everyone happy, and doing the exact wrong thing. I’m tired of doing the best I can, and it’s never good enough. I’m tired of being manipulated. I’m tired of failing so miserably. I’m. Just. Tired.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“We can have hope in anything. In each other. In new friendships. In ourselves. In our future. In the kindness of strangers.”
― Diana Urban, Under the Surface

“Can I . . . can I get your autograph?” he pleaded with wide eyes, clasping his chest. Sasha furrowed her brow. “What the hell are you talking about?” “It’s just . . . I never thought I’d meet the person the world revolves around.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“He is a person. With hopes and dreams of his own. They might not be as ambitious as yours, but he’s got every right to pursue them.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“Dad installed Fortnite on his own laptop.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“We are Les Gardiens des Morts; we guard the dead, and the dead guard us.”
― Diana Urban

“plunge a dagger into her chest.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“Betrayal can make you do ridiculous things.”
― Diana Urban, Lying in the Deep

“So, what, you believe in nothing?” Julien says, obviously to Val. “Of course,” she says. “How gullible can you be?” “How faithless can you be?” says Julien.”
― Diana Urban, Under the Surface

“They really think it’s a good idea to turn Juliet’s suicide monologue into a song? Who the hell breaks into song before offing themselves?”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“Wait, wait . . . do you smell that?” He gave a big sniff. The air smelled faintly of exhaust and evening dew. “No.” “It’s the smell of new beginnings!” “Oh, shut up.” I rolled my eyes and shoved his arm away. “Alas!” He rushed after me as I sped through the door. “It’s the dawn of a new era!”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“My life might be worth shit, but you are the definition of shit. The epitome of shit. The bacteria that fester on shit—”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“Ugh! Why are you always everywhere?"
"Why are you never nowhere?" he retorted.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting. Within the hour, you must choose someone in this room to die. If you don’t, everyone dies.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“We’re our choices, our bravery, our sacrifices. We’re forgiveness and strength and the tears we’ve shed. We’re the friendships we’ve built and the love we’ve shared. Time might go on without us and our cells might wither to dust, but that doesn’t diminish our existence. We all leave a mark on this world.”
― Diana Urban, Under the Surface

“I could almost feel the distance between us pulling taut like bands meant to snap back together.”
― Diana Urban, Lying in the Deep

“My God. Sasha ruined everything. Everything. And I just wanted to die.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“innocent little musician Amber Prescott.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“Serial killers don't start out as one.”
― Diana Urban, Lying in the Deep

“harps—”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“plan! We might’ve had a chance!” “It’d never have worked!” Sasha cried. “Don’t you see that?”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“The thing about being trapped in a room with five other people, a bomb, and a syringe of lethal poison is that at some point, shit's going down. No matter how frantically you claw at rationality, how desperately you cling to common decency, you eventually give in to your basic instinct to survive.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“Well”—Robbie pushed past Scott—“there’s only one way to find out for sure.” Before anyone could stop him, he grabbed the syringe from the tray and pressed his thumb on the plunger.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“moot”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“you’re naïve as a pebble.” I crossed my arms. “That’s not an expression.”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets

“Did you know my older sister died by suicide because she was bullied?”
― Diana Urban, All Your Twisted Secrets