Julie Anne Peters

“Do you love him?” I jumped out of my skin. She was standing right beside me. “Who?” Her eyes widened. “Seth?” I…

— Julie Anne Peters

My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together.…

— Julie Anne Peters

Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

— Julie Anne Peters

As they were carting him off on a gurney, all I could think was, I wish that was me.

— Julie Anne Peters

Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.

— Julie Anne Peters

She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.

— Julie Anne Peters

“They got it wrong when they called it “the closet." This was a prison. Solitary confinement. I was locked inside, inside myself,…

— Julie Anne Peters

Because no one can be trusted.

— Julie Anne Peters

“Black_Venus: Here it goes: Curious mosaic Continental drift Parabolic metaphor Elemental rift Time and transposition Conscious intermission Assertion? Desertion -- Black_Venus: That's…

— Julie Anne Peters

Yeah, I loved her. I couldn't help it. She was my brother.

— Julie Anne Peters

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is…

— Julie Anne Peters

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

— Julie Anne Peters

I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.

— Julie Anne Peters

People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where…

— Julie Anne Peters

There's no reason to speak. I have nothing to say.

— Julie Anne Peters

...When I asked [my dad why the sky was blue] he said it was because God's a boy. If God were a…

— Julie Anne Peters

I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.

— Julie Anne Peters

What did she see in me? What does she see that I don't?

— Julie Anne Peters

“I better get the hearse back before dark." Xanadu sighed. "Uncle Lee got into it with Aunt Faye about me even borrowing…

— Julie Anne Peters

No one ever found out what was happening inside me. How the pain was eating me away. No one ever came to…

— Julie Anne Peters

At times like this, I'm thankful I don't feel love.

— Julie Anne Peters

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?

— Julie Anne Peters

My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around…

— Julie Anne Peters

That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A…

— Julie Anne Peters

My parents will be sad for a while, and they may even blame themselves, the way they do now. Eventually they'll come…

— Julie Anne Peters