Top 100 Heather Demetrios Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m tired. Like I-want-to-sleep-forever tired.”

— Heather Demetrios

2. “That’s how the worst year of my life starts – in a Mustang with steamed-up windows, with a beautiful boy who cries.”

— Heather Demetrios

3. “I’m not over the moon. I’m on the moon. It’s surreal, this happiness. I’m scared the universe will notice and take you away from me. Because it isn’t fair, how good I feel.”

— Heather Demetrios

4. “I think I might fall off the wagon again. Preferably today. Preferably now. Are wagons really that hard to climb back onto? They don’t say fall off a skyscraper, fall out of a plane. It’s just a wagon.”

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5. “I feel trapped in this car with you and for the first time since we’ve gotten together, I want to be somewhere you’re not.”

— Heather Demetrios

6. “I’m the girl who’s desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn’t she knows she’ll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.”

— Heather Demetrios

7. “How could someone hurt you so bad but you still wanted to hold him and tell him it was going to be okay?”

— Heather Demetrios

8. “If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?” I opened my mouth to say San Francisco or maybe Madrid – somewhere exotic. But what came out was, “Here. Right here.”

— Heather Demetrios

9. “Everything – the moon, the fireworks, the fields – had an otherworldly beauty, and I shivered, greedy for these bits of loveliness the universe was throwing our way tonight.”

— Heather Demetrios

10. “I love you to the moon and back – you read that in one of the picture books you brought to my house whenI was sick. It’s becoming this thing with us. I melt. And you knew I would. You’ve got all these aces up your sleeve – a real card shark.”

— Heather Demetrios

11. “I don’t know what just happened. I’m shaking and I’m scared and confused. I do know that I used to feel safe with you – and I don’t anymore.”

— Heather Demetrios

12. “His brown eyes filled with worry, and I wished, not for the first time, that my heart could love him in a different way. It would have been so easy. So nice.”

— Heather Demetrios

13. “I really wish that the boy I’m in love with hadn’t slept with three-quarters of the Creek View population,” I said.”

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14. “Spend our lives. Minutes as currency. It’s like we’re paying God, handing Her our time in exchange for more breath: Here’s a minute, here’s another minute, another. And sometimes I want to be like, Can I have a refund? Or maybe an exchange. A new life. A new me. Because I’m only seventeen and I feel broke. Like I spent my life already.”

— Heather Demetrios

15. “It’s not every day you get to watch the two people you care most about in the world fall in love.”

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16. “Now I look at that girl who adores you, who thinks she’s safe with you, and I want to scream at her to jump out of that car and run like hell. Because you won’t be her happy place for long.”

— Heather Demetrios

17. “She was a kept thing, shackled to a master who would never let her go, locked in a cage of dreams.”

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18. “C’est la goddamn vie.”

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19. “My movie tastes are more boy meets girl, girl falls in love with boy, and everything’s happy at the end,” I said.”

— Heather Demetrios

20. “Something in me is dimming, something that I already know I can’t get back. But you’re worth it. You are. I will tell myself this for several more months. And when I realize you aren’t worth it, it’ll be too late.”

— Heather Demetrios

21. “Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn’t feel like the universe was conspiring to keep me in a bubble.”

— Heather Demetrios

22. “You cannot have the moon without the night. Its light needs the darkness to kiss. Who else can hold it but the shadows? What else can make it shine?”

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23. “She was the roar and the whisper and the stillness. She was nothing. She was everything.”

— Heather Demetrios

24. “I can’t carry you. I love you, he said. But. I can’t carry you. Sometimes, he said, you’re too much. I can’t carry you.”

— Heather Demetrios

25. “When the store was empty again, I buried my head in my hands. I hadn’t realized how much Josh had been helping me get through the summer until he wasn’t there anymore. I wanted him to ask me how the Sky was. And then I wanted him to make it stop raining.”

— Heather Demetrios

26. “Away: that was the only command my body could respond to. Away Away Away.”

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27. “Love is medicine and dreams are oxygen.”

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28. “Why would you get a cat?” “Because it’s my destiny.”

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29. “When you’re a stupid girl in love, it’s almost impossible to see the red flags. It’s so easy to pretend they’re not there, to pretend everything is perfect.”

— Heather Demetrios

30. “Was this what it meant to grow up, to move on?”

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31. “I grabbed them and walked up to the glass door. He turned around, realizing his mistake, and I held them up. He shook his fist at the sky and started walking back, but I pulled open the door and ran out.”

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32. “He tasted like hope and healing. He tasted like the future.”

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33. “He looked down for a minute, and it was as if there was this huge mountain between us, and I hated that after everything we’d been through this summer, we’d have to admit that it was impossible. We were impossible.”

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34. “Hanging out with Josh was like learning how to drive stick. It was hard enough just to start and then it was one stall after another. But somehow I always managed to crawl forward, just a little bit.”

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35. “And maybe some people are like collages – no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered.”

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36. “You’re a maze, all high edges and endless loops. I can’t find a way out, can’t see where I’ve been. It’s all running, lost in the dark of you. Trapped. Everywhere I turn is a dead end. I keep winding up back where I’ve started.”

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37. “I bet there’s air-conditioning in heaven,” I said. “Maybe it’s just the perfect temperature – low seventies with a breeze?” Josh said.”

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38. “I didn’t want him to go home and leave me to wrestle my demons alone.”

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39. “To have a point, to have a purpose, was its own kind of freedom.”

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40. “He smiled, and I made the mistake of looking into those eyes. They were epic. Blue blue blue.”

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41. “To me, it felt like such a failure. I never thought my mom and I would get that low. I wasn’t ready to admit defeat.”

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42. “But my life had suddenly become a Taylor Swift song: breakups and heartache and other girls.”

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43. “After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn’t think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.”

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44. “I grabbed the napkin wound around the silverware in front of me because paper was my lifeline and I needed to touch it, to know that maybe when I went home later, I could collage him and then it would all make sense, he would make sense. I hoped my fingers would remember the exact quality of the sunlight on his forehead, the shadows under his eyes.”

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45. “Each lie is something that’s mine, that my mom and The Giant can’t take away from me. Each lie reminds me I’m an actual person with rights and desires and the ability to make choices on her own. Each lie is power – control over my life.”

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46. “Crap.” Like I could just go out and buy a new one – Look at me, I’m so rich I can throw calculators around! I stood and picked it up, shook it. Still worked.”

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47. “A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.”

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48. “Your master is weak because he loves. You are strong because you hate. In the end you are winner, jinni-girl.”

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49. “When had Chris and Dylan stopped being enough?”

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50. “It doesn’t make me feel better. To hate him. How do you unlove someone?”

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