Elizabeth Scott > Quotes

“I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Bloom

“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?”
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain.
- Kate”
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb. ”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.”
― Elizabeth Scott

“The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Something, Maybe

“I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

“Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that's burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You're really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you're never going to reply. You're never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“ I've been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn't like that at all. It is beautiful, but it's a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is-
The thing is you want to. You don't care what's coming you just want who your heart beats for.”
― Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten Rule

“The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

“Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

“I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just
keep falling and falling and falling.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

“There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.”
― Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten Rule

“All right, you caught me. I'm secretly obsessed with you and spend all my free time writing about you in my journal. 'Dear Diary, today Will was an ass for the 467th day in a row. He's so dreamy”
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have... is now”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“I want to care, but I don’t.
I look at you and all I feel is tired.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Miracle

“Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Bloom

“You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.”
― Elizabeth Scott

“I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

“Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.”
― Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten Rule

“She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

“Three life lessons:
1.No one will see you.
2.No one will say anything.
3.No one will save you.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

“I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl