Amy Gottschling > Amy Gottschling's Quotes

“When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Glass

“Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“You believe this is a game, and you may be right. But if you think you can play it better than me, think again.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I try to live life so that I can live with myself.”
― John Green

“There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.”
― John Green

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.”
― Elizabeth Scott

“The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb. ”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die."


Kate to Will”
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Between Here and Forever

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska