Top 100 Heather Demetrios Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Maybe the only way you really know you love someone is it they can break you with a single sentence.”

— Heather Demetrios

52. “It was like the whole town was swimming in failure, but no one realized they were drowning.”

— Heather Demetrios

53. “Sia’s introspective, not depressing. There’s a difference.”

— Heather Demetrios

54. “He was the parts of the day where I smiled.”

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55. “The sad swims through your veins, dives right into the middle of your chest with no help at all from me.”

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56. “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?”

— Heather Demetrios

57. “The moon’s not big enough to wish on. Nothing is.”

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58. “If I were a real Creek View girl, the kind Josh liked, I’d be hammered right now, not thinking about my dead father.”

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

— Heather Demetrios

60. “That’s disgusting,” he said. “It should be illegal to put Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and mint together.” “Yes, because your combo of pineapple and Snickers is a real winner.”

— Heather Demetrios

61. “She held up her hand. “My forgiveness after years of insults will only be given to you if you come out with me tonight. Hooking up with Josh is strictly optional, but encouraged.”

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62. “I tried not to read anything into his being there; things like this weren’t serendipitous when you lived in the smallest town ever.”

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63. “Turns out, it’s not hard to erase yourself.”

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64. “It gave me hope: if you could make a beautiful piece of art from discarded newspapers and old matchbooks, then it meant that everything had potential. And maybe people were like collages – no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered.”

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65. “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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66. “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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67. “My life was being planned in sentences that started with ‘We’ instead of ‘I’, yet it felt like the most natural transition in the world.”

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68. “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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69. “He doesn’t know either.” She stopped and faced me. “Have you ever thought that maybe you’re helping him figure that out?”

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70. “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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71. “I didn’t want to go there, to those places he was describing, but I didn’t want to be where he wasn’t.”

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72. “She broke through the mess of me.”

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73. “Here I went again, asking him out. But it felt like I didn’t have any control. With him, I never knew what the hell I was gonna say or do.”

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74. “Why do they make guys shave their heads when they become soldiers? It makes them look like lost kids.”

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75. “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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76. “Sometimes I wondered if I’d ever find something to fill those places inside me that never stopped wanting.”

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77. “Oh my God. Sky.” Dylan stared at me, incredulous. “What?” I clutched at my dress, certain there was a big-ass rip in back or something. I pushed against her arm. “What?” “You just said love.” “No, I didn’t,” I said quickly.”

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78. “Anytime someone tries to do the right thing, it’s a terrible strategy.”

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79. “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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80. “What am I supposed to do when I’m bad for the one good thing in my life?”

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81. “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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82. “I can’t believe I only knew you for a year and a half – how can one person change you in two football seasons? But you did.”

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83. “We all wear strange armor to get through the day.”

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84. “My hands were sticky with glue, and I hummed along to Sia, playing in the background.”

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85. “This house is a prison, a suburban Alcatraz.”

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86. “Gavin’s a nice kid, but I’ll tell you somthing: a guy like him – the kind who wants you to follow him around like a puppy dog – they’re the ones you have to watch out for.”

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87. “Maybe all those years when Josh was running around town, acting like an idiot, he was just trying to find a way to escape. Maybe that was what all of us were doing, in our different ways.”

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88. “Everything I was doing was like this chess game – full of second guesses, indecision, waiting.”

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89. “Loving yourself is damn hard because it means accepting all the parts of you that you can’t stand. It means knowing you’re actually okay even though society wants you to believe that you aren’t. It’s downright revolutionary.”

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90. “I had to tell him we were like a collage. Pieces that could be put back together in a new way, a better way. If I didn’t say it now, I never would.”

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91. “I’ve never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.”

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92. “I thought of all the summer evenings I’d spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn’t have been further away from the trailer park.”

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93. “The wind gusted through the palms and the fronds rubbed together like crumpled tissue paper. It carried the scent of manure and gasoline and the orchard behind the fence. It blew under the thin material of my dress, and I shivered when it slipped over my skin. I envied its reckless abandon, the way it touched without fear.”

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94. “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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95. “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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96. “I didn’t know there were so many ways to say I love you.”

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97. “I’m telling you – guys like Gavin, they’re real snakes in the grass.”

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98. “Might as well,” she spit. “You know what it feels like, being friends with you guys? Do you have any idea how it sounds when you talk about how crappy this town is and how you’d rather die than end up saddled with a baby, living in a trailer park, broke as hell? Every time you say that, you’re describing my life. A life I’m actually okay with – I’m sure as hell a lot happier than either of you.”

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99. “But I knew it was too much to wish that Creek View would be wiped off the face of the earth forever. The other towns needed us: you can’t have the light without the dark, right? Maybe our darkness was necessary for other people to see their light.”

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100. “I raised my cup. “To Blake Mitchell – no, never mind. To me.”

— Heather Demetrios