Ginger Scott > Quotes

“I wanted you to fall. And I wanted to catch you.”
― Ginger Scott, This is Falling

“...You are the first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing I think about at night. You are the face in all of my dreams and the smile I see when I close my eyes. Your voice when you sing in the shower late at night, when you think you’re alone, is like music to my ears...”
― Ginger Scott, This is Falling

“Make me earn it,” he says, pausing again to take my top lip between both of his. “I’ll earn it. I’ll never stop trying to earn it…to earn you.”
― Ginger Scott, The Hard Count

“We do things in life to make others happy. We make sacrifices because that feeling—the one I once thought was altruism, but have since learned is just love—it makes us feel good. We give, but it’s never selfless.”
― Ginger Scott, The Hard Count

“I am willing to wait for whatever pieces she’s willing to give. And if I have to help her make each piece whole first, then so be it.”
― Ginger Scott, This is Falling

“That mother-"
"Hey, watch what you're about to call the guy standing at your door," Nate says.
"That motherly, wonderful, down-the-hall neighbour of mine. What's wrong with saying that?”
― Ginger Scott, This is Falling

“I haven't honestly been interested in anyone since I met you. I don't konw when it happened, but somewhere along the way I fell for you. I fell fucking hard.”
― Ginger Scott, Waiting on the Sidelines

“She starts spinning slowly in a circle, laughing. And then it’s there - the smile. The same look she had on her face in that picture. It’s joy. And I just gave it to her.
My god, do I want to give it to her again.”
― Ginger Scott, This is Falling

“Ugly doesn't have a color. It lives among selfishness and hate”
― Ginger Scott, The Hard Count

“Nancy and I discovered that you can strip a bully of heir power without even confronting them. All you need to find is your passion - something to love. For Nancy, it was swimming. For me, it was a boy.”
― Ginger Scott, Waiting on the Sidelines

“You ever make wishes?” -Nate
“All the time,” ... “You?” -Rowe
“Nah,” ... “I just made my first one in years.” -Nate
“Oh yeah? You want Barbie back?” -Rowe
“No,” he smiles. “I wished you were over here instead of there.” -Nate”
― Ginger Scott, This is Falling

“There’s comfort in imperfection.”
― Ginger Scott, The Hard Count

“I love you", he said simply. "I fucked up. But I love you.”
― Ginger Scott, Waiting on the Sidelines

“I’m not angry at Rowe, I’m angry at myself for falling for her—for falling for a girl who can’t let herself be mine to love.”
― Ginger Scott, This is Falling

“I know you think I don't remember. I konw you think I was probably too drunk, but it was the only moment of clarity I've had in months, Nolan. I love you. I meant it then, and I mean it now. I love you, with everything I've got. It's the only thing I've got and I've been terrified because I thought you were falling for him. But I'de be a fool if I didn't tell you now.”
― Ginger Scott, Waiting on the Sidelines

“I broke you. Over nad over. And then I blamed you for being broken...”
― Ginger Scott, Waiting on the Sidelines

“Reagan, your world…Nico’s world…same fuckin’ world. You come from different parts, but who cares? You meet in the middle.”
― Ginger Scott, The Hard Count

“I love you, Kensi ,” he says, his lips grazing mine softly, before he pulls his mouth away again, leaving his head against mine. “I love you… but I will suffocate you. Drown you. Loving me… it will kill you.”
― Ginger Scott, Wild Reckless

“We aren't much without you. I'm not much without you.”
― Ginger Scott, Waiting on the Sidelines

“We all have our own stories, and they part and intersect in many different places. It’s”
― Ginger Scott, The Hard Count

“I’m just saying maybe we’re all a little fucked up, and the only difference is the world knows Owen’s story, because it happened out in the open. The rest of us…we all just keep our shit private.”
― Ginger Scott, Wild Reckless

“I almost kissed your neck out of habit then I snapped out of it and realized that you're not mine. But what's strange is it felt like you've always been mine.”
― Ginger Scott, Going Long

“I’m not sure what I’m in right now – a fantasy or tragedy. Perhaps it’s both. Maybe it’s always been both. Maybe that’s what life is – a beautiful mess.”
― Ginger Scott, A Boy Like You

“I love you, and I’m not afraid to love you,” I say.
….
“I shouldn’t let you,” he says, his bottom lip held under his teeth, his breath a sharp intake. “But I don’t care, Kensi. Because I think I need you to survive. I think I need you to love me, because that’s literally all I’ve got.”
― Ginger Scott, Wild Reckless

“We pretend to be tough, to be grown up and ready – but we’re not. We’re so far away from any of that.”
― Ginger Scott, A Boy Like You

“It's hard to see something you want as attainable when so many things need you on the other side.”
― Ginger Scott, Wild Reckless

“I can't kiss you, Nolan," he whispered. I reached up and grabbed fistfuls of the sides of his shirt, clinging to it. "You're with him, Nolan. It's not right, and I can't kiss you when you're with him. Why are you with him, Nolan? Why the hell are you with him?" (...) "I couldn't have you. I didn't know what to do.”
― Ginger Scott, Waiting on the Sidelines

“I want to feel like I did when Christopher’s arms held me away from the harms of the world. That was the last time I ever felt safe, and it was the day I almost died. I’ve been chasing that feeling for years.”
― Ginger Scott, A Boy Like You

“I love him.
I want him.
I need him.
I breathe him.”
― Ginger Scott, Wild Reckless

“I can tell within a glance if someone hates me. Sometimes it only takes one word. Other times, it’s those subtle nonverbal cues – a shift of the eyes or arms folded over a chest in an attempt to hide all of that hate inside that’s dying to bore through their chest and grip mine until I choke or die.
Nico Medina is subtle about it. It’s the way he doesn’t look at me, and how he breathes when I speak – the sound of air filling his chest so heavy I think it may just turn into fire and come back at me in flames.”
― Ginger Scott, The Hard Count