Top 100 Heather Demetrios Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Heather Demetrios

2. “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

3. “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

4. “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.”

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

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6. “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.”

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7. “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.”

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8. “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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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.”

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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.”

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11. “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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12. “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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13. “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.”

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14. “I guess some people need to get as close to death as possible before they realize they don’t want to die after all.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “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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17. “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.”

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

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

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21. “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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22. “He tasted like hope and healing. He tasted like the future.”

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23. “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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24. “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.”

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25. “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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26. “Why is it that some people in the world get to wake up in beautiful houses with fairly normal parents and enough food in the fridge while the rest of us have to get by on the scraps the universe throws at us? And we gobble them up, so grateful. What the hell are we grateful for?”

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27. “The shimmering bubbles of happiness that had been floating all around me popped one by one, the whole breathlessness of our summer becoming nothing more than old soap on a stained industrial carpet.”

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28. “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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29. “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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30. “A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.”

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31. “C’est la goddamn vie.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “Kind of. Just – we don’t know what happens when we die, right? I mean, maybe we go up to some perfect place in the sky, or maybe we turn to dust, or we’re spirits and can still think and hear and go places. So talking to the person that’s dead isn’t crazy. They could be listening to you. Right?”

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35. “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.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “This is something else I will learn while I am with you-not now, but later: there are so many ways to drown.”

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38. “I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I’d always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and the mysterious fog that blanketed it. I could almost smell the cappuccinos I’d planned to drink in bohemian cafes or hear the indie music in the bookstores I would spend my free time in. I pictured the friends I’d make, my kindred art people, and the dorm room I was supposed to move into.”

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39. “People that don’t wake up every morning feeling like what’s the point will never understand. It’s impossible. They say: exercise, meditate, think happy thoughts, snap out of it, wear this crystal, drink this tea, find your goddamn bliss. But I literally – and I am not exaggerating – do not remember a time when I was truly happy.”

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40. “My eyes roved over the walls covered with my collages and prints of famous paintings. Magritte, Kandinsky, Kahlo. My origami shapes hung from fishing wire, dangling over my bed. They shivered in the slight breeze blowing through my open window. It was my own little escape pod, but none of it was enough tonight.”

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41. “Even Mom doesn’t understand how being in front of a camera all the time twists and warps you. How one second it makes you feel unbelievably alive and the next publicly strips you down until all that’s left is one big question mark.”

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

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43. “It occurred to me that we were the same, in a way. Both of us treading water, pushing against forces we couldn’t control.”

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44. “Did he realize how he was sometimes able to say the perfect thing? Because if he was trying to get in my pants, it was working.”

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

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

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47. “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.”

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

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49. “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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50. “This house is a prison, a suburban Alcatraz.”

— Heather Demetrios