Libby Hinrichs > Libby's Quotes

“Our own bodies and minds have changed in ways that are even weirder than puberty.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“Welcome to Perdido beach, where our motto is: Radiation, what radiation?”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“[Caine]
"Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were."
[Sam]
"Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I just want to not be me.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Life is a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
― Alice Sebold

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“What did we ever do before text messaging?' Vi asked...
Write notes to each other. On paper'
Seems positively archaic now.'
Pretty soon we'll just be wired into each other and orject our thoughts back and forth,' Skye said...”
― Paul Ruditis, Rainbow Party