Courtney Summers

“I hear the unmistakable sound of glass breaking and I start apologizing to no one, trying to pick it up again, but…

— Courtney Summers

“When this is over, society will need entertainment to get past it. We'll make movies about it, hundreds of movies, and in…

— Courtney Summers

“We were beyond needing other people. Anyone else who happens on the both of us, they're just temps.”

— Courtney Summers

“You think I ever stopped wanting to die after the motel?" I ask. "You think a feeling like that just goes away?”

— Courtney Summers

“It's your last year, Grey," she says. "Make a difference for your school." I'd burn this place to the ground before I…

— Courtney Summers

“I was perfect... and then I wasn't.”

— Courtney Summers

“Then I should be dead really soon, because you're stressing me out.”

— Courtney Summers

“Tell Liz,' I say, 'the mean girl totally got what she deserved in the end.”

— Courtney Summers

“Sometimes I feel hunted by my grief. It circles me, stalks me. It's always in my periphery. Sometimes I can fake it…

— Courtney Summers

“Milo and I have this drinking game about Beth: every time she annoys me, we drink. She annoys me alot.”

— Courtney Summers

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

— Courtney Summers

“I take a swig from Milo’s flask and hand it back to him. He screws the top back on. He inherited the…

— Courtney Summers

“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

“I’m sorry,” he tells me. I sit down on the bed. He returns to the view of the street below. I follow…

— Courtney Summers

“There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or…

— Courtney Summers

“She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?”

— Courtney Summers

“I remember how covered in blood Rhys was. All over his shirt, his jeans, caked on his neck, his hands. I didn't…

— Courtney Summers

“I move closer to the glass, as close as I can get to it, begging her, begging Lily, begging Grace, begging all…

— Courtney Summers

“I couldn't talk him out of you.”

— Courtney Summers

“Becky, you're only standing there because I decided I didn't want to.”

— Courtney Summers

“Anyway," Jake says. I turn back to him. “I just wanted to start over a good note, that’s all.” I have to…

— Courtney Summers

“You need to bury it," Cary tells me. "All of that's over. You have to be here now.”

— Courtney Summers

My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.

— Courtney Summers

“I didn't want to be popular because it was easier; I wanted to be popular because in high school that's the best…

— Courtney Summers

“I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared. I opened my eyes and I felt it go.”

— Courtney Summers