Top 180 Courtney Summers Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I wonder if all hearts are made with the same pockets for fear and pain and sadness. They must not be, or if they are, maybe we all don’t know how to use them. Because otherwise so many of our stories would have ended differently.”

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152. “Before I tore the label off, this color was either called Paradise or Hit and Run. I wonder what it would be named if they had to call it what it really is. The color of your insides. The stuff your heart beats. Nothing you can afford to lose.”

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153. “It’s a slow process; he always seems reluctant to let her go and I think she likes to savor that as much as possible.”

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154. “The infected give chase and I won’t look back, can’t. Hearing them is enough, a cacophony of breathless shrieking that all means one thing: mine, mine, mine.”

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155. “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.”

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156. “Now is not about gathering courage, it’s about staying one step ahead of my fear.”

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157. “I want to shove the question down his throat until he chokes on it.”

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158. “I remind myself it’s nothing I have to hold or be held to.”

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159. “I wouldn’t do that. You don’t have to accept it.” He pauses. “But maybe you should hate the people responsible. Because it’s not you.”

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160. “This is awful. This is so hopeless. We’re all lost in different ways, so how do we even help each other find our way out. We won’t. We can’t. We’ll just stay lost forever. p.118.”

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161. “Thank God I don’t have to like her to love her,” Holly.”

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162. “I walk over to the window and peer out at the party. I like it better from this distance, away from everyone. Safe.”

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163. “I want to live my life on the internet. Everything is perfect there.”

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164. “I can’t stand every boring, worthless piece of conversation I overhear because they make me wish I could be a part of them, be some nobody girl with nothing to say.”

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165. “Because I meant it. But I’m not a good person and I’ll never be a good person, so who cares if I meant it, right?”

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166. “No, you’re a work of art.”

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167. “Who doesn’t want a love story?”

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168. “It can’t be wrong to want to see someone because you like the person you are when you’re around them. That’s probably one of the best reasons you could have.”

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169. “It’s so hard not to enjoy this because how can you put something so golden, a girl who can barely open her eyes or her mouth – how can you put something like that in front of them and expect them to be better people?”

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170. “It’s hard to think of someone so vulnerable and alone. It’s hard to think of her, so vulnerable and alone.”

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

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172. “Eddie, I think... sometimes lies bring you to the truth... or help you reconcile with it...”

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173. “They cry for her and twist their hands in a way they never would for me. This is what happens when a girl befalls a fate no one thinks she deserves.”

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174. “The quiet is eerie, the absence of the living dead. I’m no stranger to this kind of silence and I’m almost ready to believe not seeing the infected is worse than seeing them because at least wherever they are, you know where you shouldn’t be.”

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175. “I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they’ve been taken away from me.”

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176. “If I can do things right, I don’t see why everyone else can’t.”

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177. “Yeah, totally. I punch myself in the arms a lot. It’s a real problem.”

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178. “I glance at her and she looks soft, not vicious, but a lot of people in this town are a soft kind of vicious.”

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179. “And it’s not that she tells him it didn’t happen, it’s that by the time he asks, she no longer has a language of her own. But that’s enough. It always is.”

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180. “Try to do good for a girl who never did me any favors and it turns out worse than it ever needed to be.”

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181. “I need to tell him something that’s true. I want something between us that’s true. “I like you,” I say. “I didn’t mean to make it hard for you to like me back.”

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182. “Norton says he’s going to tell on me for being late. Henley and Grey will get the notice and I’ll have to discuss it on Friday. Why were you late, Parker? What do you think that would accomplish, Parker? And then the tough question. What destructive behaviors were you engaging in for the five minutes you weren’t in class, Parker?”

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183. “I’ve fought off groups before and making it out in one piece was pure dumb luck. That’s it. These days it feels like alive is an accidental state of being.”

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184. “It’s always uncomfortable around a cop, like they somehow know every terrible thing we’ve done or thought about doing.”

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185. “And the whole time they’re doing this, my sister is dead.”

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186. “My hands are dying.”

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187. “If you tell a story – something real, something true – you get to be alive in other people. And writing feels like the most... the greatest chance I’ll ever have at being – alive.”

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188. “For that brief period when everything ugly is covered under the sparkle of something so new, the world almost feels like it’s living up to its potential.”

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189. “A girl who bulldozes a person by being ten times herself in front of them.”

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190. “Having a sister is a promise no one but the two of you can make – and no one but the two of you can break.”

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191. “There’s no forgiveness in me, I don’t think. Just a brutal acceptance of all that has been lost and a resigned march forward in the face of no other options.”

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192. “My chest aches, not because I’m romantic or sentimental but because these were things that belonged to me and now they don’t belong to me anymore.”

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193. “I’m going to carve my name into his soul.”

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