Courtney Summers

“Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .”

— Courtney Summers

“I hold his gaze until the chaos outside breaks my concentration. Outside, where everything is falling, landing and breaking at once. Sometimes…

— Courtney Summers

“He tells me its going to be okay until all the words blur together into a hum that makes me close my…

— Courtney Summers

“I am so sad it makes me heavier than the sum of my parts.”

— Courtney Summers

“I feel the space beside me in a way that knows he's been gone a while. and my chest is winding itself…

— Courtney Summers

“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

“...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word.…

— Courtney Summers

“And that I miss her, that I need her, and this kind of missing, this kind of need, the kind of emptiness…

— Courtney Summers

“So? You have a boy's name." "And you have a dog's name.”

— Courtney Summers

“Uh, what are you doing?' 'What does it look like I'm doing?' Jake asks, settling into the seat beside me. The bus…

— Courtney Summers

“Maybe the only way our story can end is varying degrees of sad.”

— Courtney Summers

“I thought it could be something, I mean, eventually." Harrison finally looks at us. "My life I thought-but I mean... it's nothing."…

— Courtney Summers

“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

“Like I'd let you captain me.”

— Courtney Summers

“My hands are dying.”

— Courtney Summers

“This must be what Dorothy felt like, I think. Maybe. If Dorothy was six scared teenagers and Oz was hell.”

— Courtney Summers

“I close my eyes and think of the photograph Culler showed me. I see it in my head perfectly. He'll be there,…

— Courtney Summers

I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.

— Courtney Summers

“I close my eyes and lean my head against the seat, and the word fuck just repeats itself over and over in…

— Courtney Summers

“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

“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

“I'm not afraid to be alone like you are.”

— Courtney Summers