Elizabeth Scott (author) Quotes

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I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.

Elizabeth Scott
I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.

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I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

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Kate, don't be like that. You know I only did so well because I yearn-see, SAT word- to follow you to college and steal your heart." "Uh-huh. Too bad for you I don't plan on attending clown college." He grinned. "Only you would ignore the incredibly sweet thing I just said." "Only you would describe one of your asinine comments as incredibly sweet.

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I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.

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She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.

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I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.

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I think you're the saddest person I've ever met. It's like you're drowning in it.

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So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).

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And you… do you know what you are? Stupid? Beautiful, he says, his face turning red.

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I didn't want to see it. I didn't think he'd ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn't.

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Well as much as I'm sure the people next door who are pretending they aren't looking at me would like to hear what I have to say, I'd rather say it to just you.

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I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it's terrible and beautiful.

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I'm always the one who doesn't have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, So, is your friend, you know, with someone? and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time.

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I don't know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.

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I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.

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Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

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I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

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Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.

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Do you really think he was flirting with me?" "Let's see. He gave you candy you hate - I saw your face - and a CD of songs..." He looks at the CD. "All of these are, like, twenty years old at least. Figures. Oh, and he groped your face. Sounds like true love to me.

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Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will

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There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.

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You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.

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He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that's a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.

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I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.

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The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating

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Just once, I wanted to lose something without the whole world watching.

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I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.

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I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.

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I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.

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