Top 100 Heather Demetrios Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Heather Demetrios

52. “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.”

— Heather Demetrios

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

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

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55. “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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56. “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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57. “I raised my cup. “To Blake Mitchell – no, never mind. To me.”

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58. “Lately, I catch myself lying all the time, little fibs that buy me extra minutes with you. Instead of feeling bad about it, I feel liberated. Being a good kid hasn’t been working out for me. So I let the bad girl in. 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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59. “I didn’t want him to go home and leave me to wrestle my demons alone.”

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

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

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

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63. “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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64. “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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65. “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.”

— Heather Demetrios

66. “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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67. “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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68. “When had Chris and Dylan stopped being enough?”

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

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70. “Maybe the only way you really know you love someone is it they can break you with a single sentence.”

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

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

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

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

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76. “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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77. “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.”

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78. “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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79. “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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80. “Turns out, it’s not hard to erase yourself.”

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81. “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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82. “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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83. “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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84. “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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85. “She broke through the mess of me.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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97. “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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98. “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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99. “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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100. “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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