Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Courtney Summers

The fall takes no time and forever.

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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