Top 90 Elizabeth Scott Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.”

— Elizabeth Scott

52. “Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?”

— Elizabeth Scott

53. “My name is Danielle. I’m eighteen. I’ve been stealing things for as long as I can remember.”

— Elizabeth Scott

54. “The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren’t mine, that won’t ever be mine. It’s all I’ve ever known. I wish it wasn’t.”

— Elizabeth Scott

55. “You can plan all you want, but you will never know what will be. Life just is, and I am here in it. I am waiting for what comes next.”

— Elizabeth Scott

56. “I think you’re the saddest person I’ve ever met. It’s like you’re drowning in it.”

— Elizabeth Scott

57. “I see it in his eyes, he has eyes you can see everything in, and I say, “Morgan,” my voice as quiet as the ghost I am supposed to be.”

— Elizabeth Scott

58. “It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.”

— Elizabeth Scott

59. “I didn’t feel anything watching him go. I didn’t even wish I did.”

— Elizabeth Scott

60. “Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn’t know how lucky I was.”

— Elizabeth Scott

61. “Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn’t know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will’s laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn’t be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.”

— Elizabeth Scott

62. “I-I don’t usually go around throwing rocks at people’s windows. Or saying that I’ve wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind.”

— Elizabeth Scott

63. “He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that’s a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.”

— Elizabeth Scott

64. “She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.”

— Elizabeth Scott

65. “All the things I’ve thought about love are true. It’s beautiful and terrible and it doesn’t make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.”

— Elizabeth Scott

66. “I sit next to Caleb, waiting and thinking about what life really is. About how it has its own will. How it shows you things that rip you open, tear your world apart. How it unfolds even when you think it can’t. How it takes you places you never thought you’d be. Shows you things you never knew you wanted to see. Brings you pain – and joy.”

— Elizabeth Scott

67. “I’ll always remember taking your hand and telling you that everything would be okay.”

— Elizabeth Scott

68. “I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn’t.”

— Elizabeth Scott

69. “He never heard my story but he taught me it wasn’t true. It was just pretend but pretending is hard.”

— Elizabeth Scott

70. “You know who you are you just have to believe it.”

— Elizabeth Scott

71. “I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.”

— Elizabeth Scott

72. “I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it’s terrible and beautiful.”

— Elizabeth Scott

73. “I don’t eat bread.′ Is she pouting? It’s hard to tell. She’s had a lot of chemicals injected into her face.”

— Elizabeth Scott

74. “I never went for the talkers.”

— Elizabeth Scott

75. “What had been became what was and a story only works when you know the ending. When the people in it don’t seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her. When you don’t already know the story is a lie.”

— Elizabeth Scott

76. “I love you,′ I say, and I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.”

— Elizabeth Scott

77. “My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it’s more important to believe in me.”

— Elizabeth Scott

78. “This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it’s like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.”

— Elizabeth Scott

79. “Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.”

— Elizabeth Scott

80. “She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can’t end because she died a long time ago.”

— Elizabeth Scott

81. “And now I see what has been there all along, what I’ve noticed but never truly understood until now. Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me.”

— Elizabeth Scott

82. “I’d dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I’d seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.”

— Elizabeth Scott

83. “How can I remember a world that isn’t mine? One that isn’t the one I wake up in every day now?”

— Elizabeth Scott

84. “Everyone else carries a backpack, but not Josh. He has a cool, beat-up messenger bag, covered with stickers protesting all kinds of things.”

— Elizabeth Scott

85. “I will always know what life can take, but I am ready to see what it can give.”

— Elizabeth Scott

86. “I know I should say he suddenly seemed vulnerable and I felt a connection to his soul or whatever, but the truth is I just wanted to tackle him and then make out for the next three thousand years.”

— Elizabeth Scott

87. “I AM FREE.”

— Elizabeth Scott

88. “It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren’t dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.”

— Elizabeth Scott

89. “And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.”

— Elizabeth Scott

90. “Just once, I wanted to lose something without the whole world watching.”

— Elizabeth Scott

91. “I wants us to be real. I want to be just you and me. – Ryan.”

— Elizabeth Scott

92. “I’m always the one who doesn’t have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, “So, is your friend, you know, with someone?” and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time.”

— Elizabeth Scott

93. “I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.”

— Elizabeth Scott

94. “That damn spark.”

— Elizabeth Scott

95. “Wherever I go, I’ll always see you. You’ll always be with me. And there’s no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that’s burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You’re really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you’re never going to reply. You’re never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you.”

— Elizabeth Scott