Courtney Summers Quotes

• The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

  Courtney Summers

  Mistake, Way, Responsible

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

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  Moving, Monkeys, Cheerleader

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.34, Macmillan

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• The fall takes no time and forever.

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  Fall, Forever

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.

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  Gone, Illusion, Should

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.

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  Want, Time Passes, Ready

  Courtney Summers (2010). “Some Girls Are: A Novel”, p.173, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'm always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.

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  Leaving, Always Leaving

  Courtney Summers (2010). “Fall for Anything”, p.115, Macmillan

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• The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also don’t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour it’s like there’s nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or you’d be crushed under the weight of it.

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  Mean, Kissing, Secret

  Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.223, Macmillan

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

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  Gone, Left

  Courtney Summers (2015). “Please Remain Calm”, p.28, Macmillan

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

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  Light, Has Beens

  Courtney Summers (2010). “Fall for Anything”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?

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  People, Insane, Together

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• You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

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  Bullying, Lines, Variation

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.186, Macmillan

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• Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

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  World, Want, Lasts

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.174, Macmillan

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• We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

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  Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner

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• If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

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  Can Do, Ifs, I Can

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.

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  Waiting Around, Done, Rooms

  Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.

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  Life, Writing, Today

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.145, Macmillan

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• My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.

  Courtney Summers

  Girl, Sports, Dad

  Courtney Summers (2015). “All the Rage”, p.63, Pan Macmillan

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