Lisa Burstein > Quotes

“Unfortunately, I am only myself.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be.

Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“If bitching were karate, my mother would be a black belt.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“I used to be nice, but nice was boring. Nice hadn’t gotten me anywhere.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“He’d thought about writing a song for Mia to express the
way he felt about her, but he understood now that their kiss
was his song, his promise.
It was all he would ever have to say.”
― Lisa Burstein, Mia and the Bad Boy

“You sure are willing to go through a lot for cigarette smoking and hand holding, " I said.
"You need to try and remember that.”
― Lisa Burstein

“If snowflakes are like people, how is anyone lucky enough to find anyone in this world.”
― Lisa Burstein, The Possibility of Us

“After all that, you haven’t even taken a drink.” Mia
smiled.
He’d forgotten the bottle was still in his hand. He
dropped it, and it rolled along the floor. “In the desert of my
life,” Ryder said, “kissing you is my water.”
― Lisa Burstein, Mia and the Bad Boy

“Connor put himself between his wife and me, then put his arms around both of us. I elbowed him. "I was forced to agree to praying, not to touching."
"Touch is one of the most powerful healers."
"So is morphine. I'll take that instead.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“I read the following: Three local girls arrested in connection with area-wide drug-distribution ring, caught en route to the Collinsville South High Prom.
"Your mother thinks we'll have news crews camped on our lawn," He said.
I was less concerned about that and more concerned that it was now forever in black and white that we had been dateless for the prom.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“I'd always thought it was them, but maybe it was just what it felt like to not be ignored.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“There were bright balloons flying on both sides of the porch announcing the specialness of this day. It was what balloons did best, staying useful only for the amount of time your celebration lasted, physical symbols of that blast of happy and deflating when real life came back.”
― Lisa Burstein, Again

“He was glad she thought it was his ego that had kept his face on his phone and not his heart.”
― Lisa Burstein, Mia and the Bad Boy

“I plunged into him, kissing him like I was flame and he was wood, our tongues igniting”
― Lisa Burstein, The Possibility of Us

“Maybe we were too broken to put back together. Maybe we’d been too broken to ever put together in the first place.”
― Lisa Burstein, The Possibility of Us

“Ginny yelled through her megaphone as we worked, telling us to view the trash we picked up as a gathering of all the souls we affected with our drug use. To see each piece as one more person who forgave us.
I picked up an empty box of adult diapers and wondered who that was supposed to be.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“My Real confession would have been to apologize to her for turning into me. For letting her dreams drain out, until I became someone she wouldn't recognize”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“was amazing how things could change so quickly between two people. How hate could turn to amusement could turn to like could turn to love could turn to hate again. Relationships were like a roller coaster with the safety bars broken. Add”
― Lisa Burstein, Mia and the Bad Boy

“I ran toward the solitude of the dressing room. Of course, the full length mirror would have it's own disappointments, but I would take dealing with a fat ass over dealing with my mother any day. At least you could do something about a fat ass, in theory.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“Bad girls like me weren’t supposed to care about what happened to them. Bad girls like me were supposed to end up angry and broken and hurt. It was hard to admit that I was tired of being angry and broken and hurt. That maybe I wasn’t cut out to be a bad girl.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“I know I’d always felt like I had to make the choices I made to survive, but the thing was—I made them. I could say the world forced me into it, but that would be a lie. It was me. It was all me.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“Obviously he made me a lot of things, but nervous was pretty much the only one I was allowed to feel when it came to him. There weren’t any specific”
― Lisa Burstein, Sneaking Candy

“Amy, are you still there?” I wasn’t sure why she was asking. Did she think I’d flushed myself down the toilet? The sad thing was that if it were a possibility, I might have considered it in that moment. Gone down the pipes and floated up again into a new life, with a new me and new parents and two new best friends.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy