“I’ve got an edge like the Grand Canyon, and nothing takes it off.” — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.” — Courtney C. Stevens Lyrics Copy Share Image
“Vibrant eyes, chocolate brown, kind. The mosaic of Bodee Lennox.” — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“I love this about her. That she is like me. Emotional, and embarrassed about being emotional. I” — Courtney C. Stevens Emotional Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, you have to accept that you're still here, and that maybe, just maybe, there's a reason. Find the reason.” — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“There are no words to this music, and that makes me sad. Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.” — Courtney C. Stevens Lyrics Copy Share Image
“He always had bread crumbs in his voice, and I followed them like a fairy tale.” — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Night was like Christmas. There wasn't nearly enough of it to go around, especially in June.” — Courtney C. Stevens Christmas Copy Share Image
“She wore her heart in her eyes, and I liked her more than I know how to show.” — Courtney C. Stevens Eyes Copy Share Image
“Bodee keeps us upright; not that his traction is better than mine, but because it’s what he does.” — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Death can be muddle beliefs and raise questions, but it makes love crystal clear” — Courtney C. Stevens Death Copy Share Image
“Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it's own. I'm glad I don't have… — Courtney C. Stevens Death Copy Share Image
“And he gets why I didn't want us to be that to each other. Most people want puddles to splash around in;… — Courtney C. Stevens Personality Copy Share Image
“Nature, at its strongest, shaved off mountaintops or threw houses into the air, but it couldn't wash away pain. Everything had limitations.” — Courtney C. Stevens Limitations Copy Share Image
“ Your hurt is not an excuse to take. Your loneliness is not an excuse to cheat. Your desire is not a… — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“I won't let anyone hurt you." If a heart can smile, mine does. "Bodee, thanks," I say, though I know he doesn't… — Courtney C. Stevens Smile Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever touch her again," Bodee says. There must be muscles in his arms where before I thought there was only… — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“...And no one is asking you to choose because of a whiteboard or a sex dream." "I know." "But you still feel… — Courtney C. Stevens Dreams Copy Share Image
“It's as if he wants me to say he could have stopped his dad, so he's handing me a whip to beat… — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Lex, this'll sound weird, but when I was a kid I believed in monsters. You know, like vampires. Werewolves. Ghosts. And I… — Courtney C. Stevens Haunting Copy Share Image
“My dad's mom, Pazie, has this formal dining room, and it's so formal no one is allowed to use it. Some people… — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“He's opening a door, but he already knows I won't walk through. The power of Bodee is in the way he reads… — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“I'd like to hold you in the mountains, like to kiss you by the sea. Take you far, far from here to… — Courtney C. Stevens Falling star Copy Share Image
“Thinking of yourself is boyish is one thing, but your friends assigned you a gender - without asking - and that flayed… — Courtney C. Stevens Friendship Copy Share Image
“And more than that, Bodee left me with hope. For love. For wanting someone to touch me again and to lie with… — Courtney C. Stevens Hope Copy Share Image
“There’s an art to crying without a sound, and I’m a master. But” — Courtney C. Stevens Art Copy Share Image
“People weren't perfect, ever, but sometimes moments were.” — Courtney C. Stevens Moments Copy Share Image
“Somebody (not me) should tell them, when you act like you think you’re cute, you’re not. We” — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“Right now we’re both yard sales of emotions. A penny for pain. A dime for bitterness. A quarter for grief. A dollar… — Courtney C. Stevens Anger Copy Share Image
“The world hazed around me. I felt everything without feeling any thing.” — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
“With the way Max smiled, we wouldn't need the moon to light the way.” — Courtney C. Stevens Moon Copy Share Image
“Alone. Before this crowd. Alone, in this terrible dream. Who am I in this visible silence? Can they hear me scream?” — Courtney C. Stevens Dream Copy Share Image
“I don't want this thing in my chest to beat me to death, but I also don't want to protect it so… — Courtney C. Stevens Death Copy Share Image
“But today is better than yesterday. And this hurt is still a hole in me, but it's a shrinking hole.” — Courtney C. Stevens Better Than Yesterday Copy Share Image
“Because Bodee pulls back when other guys his age rush forward. Because his two fingers on my hips while we're dancing and… — Courtney C. Stevens Dance Copy Share Image
