“Becky, you're only standing there because I decided I didn't want to.” — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor. — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“I take a deep breath. It smells suspiciously like bullshit in here.” — Courtney Summers Deep breath Copy Share Image
“I'm hazy on remembering or maybe I'm just tired or maybe a part of my brain wants to sabotage me.” — Courtney Summers Memory Copy Share Image
“If I could speak I'd tell her I hate her. I hate you. I want my silence to carry that to her,… — Courtney Summers Hate Copy Share Image
“Jake and Chris talk through art and discover they have so much in common it's amazing. Like, They Could Be Boyfriends If… — Courtney Summers Art Copy Share Image
“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 Destructive behavior Copy Share Image
“I don't have time for the 'things change speech, Parker." "So give me the CliffNotes version.” — Courtney Summers Communication Copy Share Image
“You think I ever stopped wanting to die after the motel?" I ask. "You think a feeling like that just goes away?” — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“Because I meant it. But I'm not a good person and I'll never be a good person, so who cares if I… — Courtney Summers Good person Copy Share Image
“This is not a test. Listen closely. This is not a test." But I think she's wrong. I think this is a… — Courtney Summers Communication Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's… — Courtney Summers Accident Copy Share Image
“I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard… — Courtney Summers Bullying Copy Share Image
“Except forget it happened on Monday, right? And I can kiss you, but I don't know if I can hold your hand.… — courtney summers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they're swallowed… — Courtney Summers Screams Copy Share Image
“The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“I half-expect to check out, but I'm really there for it. It's not like at the dance, angry and forced. It's terrible… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“I am so sad. I am so sad it makes me heavier than the sum of my parts. I shift, restless, but… — Courtney Summers Emptiness Copy Share Image
“Cary's going to give them the rundown on everything we've managed to piece together about what happened before Baxter got in and… — Courtney Summers Sick and tired Copy Share Image
“I think you're crazy good at this survival stuff, Cary." His shoulders sag. He gives me a small, relieved smile and we… — Courtney Summers Apocalypse Copy Share Image
Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show. — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“In high school, you don't get to change. You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn… — Courtney Summers Change Copy Share Image
The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times… — Courtney Summers Fragile Copy Share Image
“If anyone else said that to me, I think I’d roll my eyes, but Culler saying it to me means me committing… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“This must be what Dorothy felt like, I think. Maybe. If Dorothy was six scared teenagers and Oz was hell.” — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“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 Girl Copy Share Image
“You need to bury it," Cary tells me. "All of that's over. You have to be here now.” — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“We were beyond needing other people. Anyone else who happens on the both of us, they're just temps.” — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“Eddie, I think... sometimes lies bring you to the truth... or help you reconcile with it...” — Courtney Summers Lies Copy Share Image
Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“Oh" She seems relieved. "So you weren't—" "Don't worry, Ms.Grey. I wasn't drinking, smoking, toking or snorting in school. I keep the… — Courtney Summers Drug use Copy Share Image
