Bea > Bea's Quotes

“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.”
― Jessica Spotswood, Born Wicked

“We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult.”
― Jessica Spotswood, Born Wicked

“We don't get to choose what hurts us”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I think I’d been looking for it all my life
a storm in my body to match the one in my head.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“Some days it’s fine. Others it nearly breaks me. The emptiness of the horizon, and the hunger in my body, and how will we ever survive this if we can’t survive each other? “We’re gonna make it. Tell me we’re gonna make it.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“And I’m platonically in love with you.”
“That was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no homo’, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Everyone's different inside their head.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Hello.
I hope somebody is listening.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“There's this idea that if you're not straight, you HAVE to tell all your family and friends immediately, like you owe it to them. But you don't. You don't have to do anything until you're ready.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Three

“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“If my love were an ocean,
there would be no more land.
If my love were a desert,
you would see only sand.
If my love were a star-
late at night, only light.
And if my love could grow wings,
I'd be soaring in flight.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“ If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore.
But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I hope our truths bring you justice.”
― Claire Eliza Bartlett, The Good Girls

“This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“He never understood that I wasn’t scared of someone leaving me, I was scared that the wrong person would stay.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“Most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better... They want to hear what will make it easier.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“People don’t tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count”
― Laura Dave, London is the Best City in America

“We forget all sorts of things that no one helps us remember,”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us—the people we try to love.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me