Abby > Abby's Quotes

“As we kissed, it was as if I were returning to somewhere safe. We kissed, and it was like coming home after a long, grueling odyssey. Marcus and I kissed, and kissed, and kissed, and I never wanted to leave this familiar place again.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start
I didn't want to leave, but you began to believe
Your own crocodile lies.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“We were perfect in our imperfection.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life. The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight, and, turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was not alone—fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbour’s mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“By going through what we have, we helped each other be the people we're supposed to be.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“How do you react to something like that? How? How do you react when you find out the exact opposite of what you've been telling yourself is true?”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Maybe I should find comfort in the utter absurdity of life and death. I can't outwit something that only plays by one rule: It will win in the end. No matter which way I choose to move, death will always come out the victor, so I should just try to enjoy the game of life as I'm playing it.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“We are the way we're supposed to be.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I want you to be the first and the second and the third and the last, I thought.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Because I know you.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“But Jessica, we have all the time in the world.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“God is an absent parent who demands loyalty despite never being around...”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“Do you believe in God?

I do, please stop, there's so much blood”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“Being transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“Hell has followed us onto Earth, and I am the monster that has brought it forth.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“The first thing Dad told me—when Mom said I’d see the Lord’s plan for my womanhood eventually, that she’d carve it into me if she had to—he told me I’m a man, and I fought for it, and nobody can take that from me.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I have no sense of myself anymore besides the fact that I am not what I once was. I'm too tired to see my body from the eyes of others, in the terrible way trans-ness demands--always existing both inside and outside myself, judging as an observer. Now, I am a pile of flesh on the floor, everything hurts, and I do not give a shit.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“The Angels are gone," Nick says. He's so close, I could rest my head on him if I wanted. I want to. I'm so tired. "You're safe now. I promise.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I had to pull a knife to keep from falling into his arms, begging him to forgive the transgression that made him raise a hand against me. He did it to me, he hurt me, and I wanted to apologize.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I just want this to be over with. I want to see Nick again. I'm so damn tired.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“God, he's so warm. This is the last time I will be safe for days, but it might as well be forever. I'm terrified. I could stay here for the rest of the time, if the world would just let me.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I can't keep running like this. I am so, so tired.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“Our faces are so close, his body is so warm, and I missed him so much. I missed him. I missed him. No matter what he did. I am disgusted with myself.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“Kissing him is water after drought, deer meat in my belly after days of refusing to eat.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“We are perfect in our imperfection.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden. Jimmy Fallon, yes please! Brad Pitt, no thank you.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings