Top 180 Courtney Summers Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Sometimes I don’t know what I miss more: everything I’ve lost or everything I never had.”

— Courtney Summers

52. “I want to burn a moment of helplessness into him so he can know a fraction of what I felt, what I feel, what’s followed me every moment since, so I You cover cover his her mouth mouth.”

— Courtney Summers

53. “Whenever I’d see a glass or bottle in my father’s hands, my whole body would steel itself for the inevitable drama of a man who didn’t know when to say when.”

— Courtney Summers

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

— Courtney Summers

55. “Everyone who knows her loves her. Except people hurt the people they love all the time.”

— Courtney Summers

56. “Or maybe you get so used to the mess of home, you convince yourself over time everything’s exactly where it belongs.”

— Courtney Summers

57. “A body might not always be beautiful, but a body can be a beautiful deception.”

— Courtney Summers

58. “The blinds are drawn and the light in here is so weak, but I would know her silhouette anywhere. I memorized it. She’s here and every moment without her was a lie.”

— Courtney Summers

59. “You make me feel alone.”

— Courtney Summers

60. “The fall takes no time and forever.”

— Courtney Summers

61. “Sometimes, Bea thinks heaven is here and now but when Lev talks like this, she knows she’s wrong. If today is ecstasy, tomorrow will be a greater bliss. Lev will lead them into that tomorrow.”

— Courtney Summers

62. “Tell Liz,′ I say, ’the mean girl totally got what she deserved in the end.”

— Courtney Summers

63. “Real life is always quieter and anticlimactic somehow. But devastating all the same.”

— Courtney Summers

64. “Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.”

— Courtney Summers

65. “I’m only fluent when I’m alone.”

— Courtney Summers

66. “Becky, you’re only standing there because I decided I didn’t want to.”

— Courtney Summers

67. “I’m always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.”

— Courtney Summers

68. “I am so sad. I am so sad it makes me heavier than the sum of my parts. I shift, restless, but it doesn’t help. It’s like – time. All this time in here is on me, has its hooks in me. Maybe if I sleep more, I’ll wake up and I’ll feel different, but I can’t. The storm is really happening now and it makes the room feel emptier. Makes me feel emptier.”

— Courtney Summers

69. “Like being alive one moment and dead the next.”

— Courtney Summers

70. “I’m distracted by everything, overwhelmed by this: people look at me and then – they don’t. Their eyes skim over me and move on to something else. There’s an unquestioned acceptance of my being here, being part of this. It’s a warm feeling and I’m so hungry for it, but I close myself off to it before I get my fill. I’m not going home to that. Best stay starved.”

— Courtney Summers

71. “It’s not about finding peace. There will never be peace.”

— Courtney Summers

72. “That’s a real tragedy and I mean it. It’s sad when people don’t realize their worth.”

— Courtney Summers

73. “I finally squint up at the face above and am relieved to find, not a wolf, but a woman, just like me. Until I see the uniform.”

— Courtney Summers

74. “If I know anything it’s that a girl never makes a case for herself by crying. It’s just one more side of herself she’s showed can’t be trusted.”

— Courtney Summers

75. “No, really. Why do you care? And why are you hungover”? I put on my most obnoxious teacher talking to a really, really stupid student voice. “Well Chris sometimes when someone overindulges-.”

— Courtney Summers

76. “But just because something starts out sweet doesn’t mean it won’t push itself so far past anything you could call sweet anymore. And if it all starts like this, how do you see what’s coming?”

— Courtney Summers

77. “We have more story than time to tell it – but I suppose that’s true for all of us.”

— Courtney Summers

78. “You don’t have to be our worst case, to be a worthy case.”

— Courtney Summers

79. “Helen Turner hates me and the way Helen Turner hates me feels like the worst kind of betrayal. A woman who doesn’t think about daughters she doesn’t have.”

— Courtney Summers

80. “I keep my eyes fixed on those silhouettes in the distance and all I can think is how could we lost the world to something so still?”

— Courtney Summers

81. “He tells me its going to be okay until all the words blur together into a hum that makes me close my eyes and I start to go away and five, ten, fifteen minutes later, I’m aware of my hand sliding down his lap and then nothingness and then the gentle sensation of his index finger pressing into my open palm and then his hand is at my face, running his fingers across my skin and I’m so awake.”

— Courtney Summers

82. “People aren’t supposed to be able to fathom eternity. It’s an amount of time beyond all human comprehension. But ever since everything ended, I think I’m getting closer to understanding it. These little tastes of it in the way hell stretches around us, making pain endless and moments like this one rare and fleeting. Making moments like this one everything.”

— Courtney Summers

83. “I hope I’m the ghost that belongs to her.”

— Courtney Summers

84. “How cruel is it that the only person I can muster the steadiness of my own voice for is the one who will be least reassured by it.”

— Courtney Summers

85. “Touching me without permission. There should be a death penalty for that.”

— Courtney Summers

86. “Whatever you’re thinking, you get it out of that damned foolish head of yours right now. Except it’s not in my head, it’s in my heart, and she’s the same woman who told me if you’re going to follow anything, it might as well be that. Even if it is a mess.”

— Courtney Summers

87. “It’s different when you think that someone’s always going to be around. You think you got all the time in the world to make it right.”

— Courtney Summers

88. “He’s quiet for so long, I wonder how bad his answer is going to be even though this doesn’t feel like any time to be honest – or maybe his silence says everything I need to know, that there is no real why. I could be any body.”

— Courtney Summers

89. “Then I should be dead really soon, because you’re stressing me out.”

— Courtney Summers

90. “In high school, you don’t get to change. You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.”

— Courtney Summers

91. “No one’s got any anywhere they need to be but they all want to be somewhere else, so they’re not happy. If my dad taught me anything, it’s that you can’t make people like that happy. You just have to survive them as best you can.”

— Courtney Summers

92. “I pull my sheet up over my head and cover my body. Her body. I wish I didn’t have a body.”

— Courtney Summers

93. “There’s a girl out there everyone thinks is dead and maybe she is because you know all the ways there are to kill a girl? I do.”

— Courtney Summers

94. “Because you made it here on a lot less” he says and he has no idea how on the mark he is.”

— Courtney Summers

95. “He slings his arm around my shoulder. I feel the question after he does it. -Is this okay?- I don’t think it is. I don’t know how to fold myself into him in any way that feels right.”

— Courtney Summers

96. “It’s the kind of motel that makes you feel every one of your secrets. The cost of the stay is how much you’re willing to live with yourself. That, and almost eighty dollars. I close the door behind me, draw the curtain, lock the door and once I do that last thing, I lean my head against it to release itself from my spent, sore muscles. I let myself get lost in my own hurt. But only for a second.”

— Courtney Summers

97. “I live in a place that’s only good for leaving.”

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98. “Her eyes widen and she shoves me back and then there’s a space between us, enough to paralyze me with all of the things I could do to her next. I could raise my hand and hit her in the face or bring my knee into her stomach, take a fistful of her hair and rip it out of her skull. You don’t get to do this when you’re a girl, so when the opportunity for violence finally presents itself, I want all of it at once.”

— Courtney Summers

99. “Carving out our own place, making something out of nothing. It feels as right as it doesn’t and I think maybe I was wrong. We can’t have exactly everything we lost. But maybe we can come close.”

— Courtney Summers

100. “Cell phones don’t run as fast as the mouths in this town.”

— Courtney Summers