“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.”
―
Courtney Summers,
Cracked Up to Be
“People don't change. They just get better at hiding who they really are.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“How does it feel to know that even at my worst, you're still not good enough?” ― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
“But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.” ― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
“Every little thing about you can be a weapon, if you're clever enough.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“Imagine 4 years.Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies (one abortion), three overdoses, countless drunken antics, pantsings, spilled food, theft, fights, broken limbs, turf wars–every day, a turf war–six months until graduation and no one gets a medal when they get out. But everything you do here counts. High school.” ― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
“You know all the ways you can kill a girl?God, there are so many.” ― Courtney Summers, All the Rage
“I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she left anyway.""But you didn't die," He says."I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.” ― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test
“The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it’s a cry for help. It wasn’t.” ― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
“You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.” ― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
“I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared. I opened my eyes and I felt it go.” ― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test
“I don't believe in forgiveness. I think if you hurt someone, it becomes part of you both. Each of you just has to live with it and the person you hurt gets to decide if they want to give you the chance to do it again. If they do and you're a good person, you won't make the same mistakes. Just whole new ones.” ― Courtney Summers, All the Rage
“I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.''I don't like you with Jake. He's not me.” ― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
“It was a terrible thing, sure, but we live in a world that has no shortage of terrible things. You can't stop for all of them.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it's there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“I'm always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.” ― Courtney Summers, Fall for Anything
“And Sadie, if you’re out there, please let me know. Because I can’t take another dead girl.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.” ― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
“People don't change. They just get better at hiding who they really are.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“How does it feel to know that even at my worst, you're still not good enough?” ― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
“But love is complicated, it’s messy. It can inspire selflessness, selfishness, our greatest accomplishments and our hardest mistakes. It brings us together and it can just as easily drive us apart.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.” ― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
“Every little thing about you can be a weapon, if you're clever enough.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“Imagine 4 years.Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies (one abortion), three overdoses, countless drunken antics, pantsings, spilled food, theft, fights, broken limbs, turf wars–every day, a turf war–six months until graduation and no one gets a medal when they get out. But everything you do here counts. High school.” ― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
“You know all the ways you can kill a girl?God, there are so many.” ― Courtney Summers, All the Rage
“I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she left anyway.""But you didn't die," He says."I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.” ― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test
“The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it’s a cry for help. It wasn’t.” ― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
“You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.” ― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
“I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared. I opened my eyes and I felt it go.” ― Courtney Summers, This is Not a Test
“I don't believe in forgiveness. I think if you hurt someone, it becomes part of you both. Each of you just has to live with it and the person you hurt gets to decide if they want to give you the chance to do it again. If they do and you're a good person, you won't make the same mistakes. Just whole new ones.” ― Courtney Summers, All the Rage
“I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.''I don't like you with Jake. He's not me.” ― Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
“It was a terrible thing, sure, but we live in a world that has no shortage of terrible things. You can't stop for all of them.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“I wish his darkness lived outside of him, because you have to know it's there to see it. Like all real monsters, he hides in plain sight.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“I'm always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.” ― Courtney Summers, Fall for Anything
“And Sadie, if you’re out there, please let me know. Because I can’t take another dead girl.” ― Courtney Summers, Sadie
“I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.” ― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are
