“Touching me without permission. There should be a death penalty for that.” — Courtney Summers Death Copy Share Image
We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death. — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .” — Courtney Summers Death Copy Share Image
“I woke up and the last piece of my heart disappeared. I opened my eyes and I felt it go.” — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“People have to live with things they don't want to live with all the time, but—how?” — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word.… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“I want to go into the sympathy card business. . . Forget sappy messages about overcoming. I want ones that say NOW… — Courtney Summers Business Copy Share Image
“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 First kiss Copy Share Image
Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow. — Courtney Summers Life 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“I don't have time for the 'things change speech, Parker." "So give me the CliffNotes version.” — Courtney Summers Communication 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
“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
Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show. — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
“I hate that I'm so numb and empty and disconnected from most of these people but even I can see worth in… — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
