Top 90 Elizabeth Scott Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.”

— Elizabeth Scott

2. “Darling, the world doesn’t owe you anything.”

— Elizabeth Scott

3. “I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that’s way more interesting that yours will ever be.”

— Elizabeth Scott

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4. “The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.”

— Elizabeth Scott

5. “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?”

— Elizabeth Scott

6. “The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won’t change that. It won’t change how things are.”

— Elizabeth Scott

7. “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

8. “I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don’t want to know. That loss doesn’t end, that there isn’t a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.”

— Elizabeth Scott

9. “I’ve been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn’t like that at all. It is beautiful, but it’s a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is- The thing is you want to. You don’t care what’s coming you just want who your heart beats for.”

— Elizabeth Scott

10. “But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.”

— Elizabeth Scott

11. “I liked him first, but it doesn’t matter. I still like him. That doesn’t matter either. Or at least, it’s not supposed to.”

— Elizabeth Scott

12. “I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling.”

— Elizabeth Scott

13. “The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.”

— Elizabeth Scott

14. “Sometimes being me is very confusing.”

— Elizabeth Scott

15. “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.”

— Elizabeth Scott

16. “Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you’re not supposed to say.”

— Elizabeth Scott

17. “Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace – grace you can reach for.”

— Elizabeth Scott

18. “Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. Being happy makes you want to talk, to go over everything, to share it so you can remember it all over again.”

— Elizabeth Scott

19. “And yet here I am. Broken and bleeding on the inside, heartsick, I am here.”

— Elizabeth Scott

20. “I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn’t think about it as I’m falling asleep.”

— Elizabeth Scott

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21. “I’m broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am.”

— Elizabeth Scott

22. “I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don’t know why I’m here. I feel like I’m not real.”

— Elizabeth Scott

23. “I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.”

— Elizabeth Scott

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24. “And what if – what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you’re nothing?”

— Elizabeth Scott

25. “I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.”

— Elizabeth Scott

26. “I thought living dead girls couldn’t feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I’m not, I’m not.”

— Elizabeth Scott

27. “I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.”

— Elizabeth Scott

28. “You tell yourself that you aren’t something or that you can’t be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.”

— Elizabeth Scott

29. “The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren’t supposed to have but do.”

— Elizabeth Scott

30. “The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating.”

— Elizabeth Scott

31. “But I know a lie when I hear one.”

— Elizabeth Scott

32. “Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.”

— Elizabeth Scott

33. “Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I’ve built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don’t understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren’t from here, but that are so real.”

— Elizabeth Scott

34. “I didn’t want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain. – Kate.”

— Elizabeth Scott

35. “Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I’m terrified, I don’t push the feeling away.”

— Elizabeth Scott

36. “Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn’t beating.”

— Elizabeth Scott

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

— Elizabeth Scott

38. “Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does.”

— Elizabeth Scott

39. “I’d forgotten how much feelings hurt.”

— Elizabeth Scott

40. “I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn’t.”

— Elizabeth Scott

41. “I knew I was having a panic attack. I hadn’t had one in a while, though, and I’d forgotton how they made everything like it- and I- was going to fall apart. How they reminded me of how trapped I was.”

— Elizabeth Scott

42. “Imagine a guy. He’s a little taller than you, with perfect skin, skin that just screams “touch me!” and dark hair and gorgeous blue eyes and he looks so sweet and he is sweet. And then have him blush a little.”

— Elizabeth Scott

43. “I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die.”

— Elizabeth Scott

44. “My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that’s the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.”

— Elizabeth Scott

45. “I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.”

— Elizabeth Scott

46. “The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself.”

— Elizabeth Scott

47. “I suppose he’s making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You’re not supposed to be real. You’re supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.”

— Elizabeth Scott

48. “He is nothing to look at, and yet I can’t stop looking at him. There is something beautiful in how his face is made, how all the tiny flaws blend together into something more perfect than perfection could ever be.”

— Elizabeth Scott

49. “I don’t know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn’t think I want to know who I really am.”

— Elizabeth Scott

50. “I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die. I hate those crying dough women on TV because they are just like me, weak and broken and clinging to the hands that hold us under.”

— Elizabeth Scott