Elizabeth Scott (author) - People Quotes

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

Elizabeth Scott
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.

Elizabeth Scott
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.

Elizabeth Scott
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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There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just— smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the—" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

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I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind.

Elizabeth Scott
School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around tons of idiots or mean people. Now that I think about it, it's worse than having a job. At least there you get paid.

Elizabeth Scott
Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

Elizabeth Scott
What had been became what was and a story only works when you know the ending. When the people in it don't seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her. When you don't already know the story is a lie.

Elizabeth Scott
Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

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