Top 50 Suzanne Young Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If it’s meant to be, you’ll find each other again.”

— Suzanne Young

2. “Don’t tell people your dreams; show them.”

— Suzanne Young

3. “I’m so alone it’s like being dead but still conscious.”

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4. “Well, that’s the thing about our past – it shapes our future.”

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5. “You don’t beat a monster by becoming one yourself.”

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6. “After all, suicide is contagious.”

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7. “Home is with the person you love, and who loves you back stupidly and completely. Home is the space of peace in your heart. And I’m finally home.”

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8. “I realize that’s the way, the way of selfish people. They want to control everyone else, but when it’s them, they want their own rules.”

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9. “Sometimes the survivor’s guilt was more than we could bear, a secret between us that we never let show. But we were all we had left?”

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10. “Like my soul is wearing thin.”

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11. “I want to be me, and yet I’m not sure who I am.”

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12. “Shame is the best teacher.”

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13. “I’m starting to see how unusual our lives are here. And the more I recognize it... the more I want to change it.”

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14. “It doesn’t matter who you come from. It matters who you become.”

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15. “The words take the air out of the room and make my skin crawl. We sit there quietly, afraid it might get worse. It can always get worse. I know that now.”

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16. “Brady’s a star up there,” he says, “in some distant place where he doesn’t hurt.”

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17. “In the movies there are always these poignant moments when people work out their misunderstandings, their miscommunications. But that’s not real life. In real life it’s hard to tell someone you don’t love them anymore. It’s harder to tell your father you don’t know how to live another day. My grief has stolen my voice” -Audrey.”

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18. “It’s funny how seeing another person hurt can break you down faster than your own emotions” -Audrey.”

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19. “He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.”

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20. “He’s making me deal with things I want to avoid. He’s making me dig in to the pain.”

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21. “But I can’t rewrite history. I can love only with what’s left.”

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22. “It isn’t fair, the way some of us have gotten so screwed by life.”

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23. “Harlin smiles softly and steps up, wrapping his arms around me as he brings his lips to my ear. I close my eyes. “I hate every second I’m away from you,” he says. “Don’t ever doubt that.” And then he kisses me.”

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24. “It’s a blank slate here, filled with possibility.”

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25. “When the deaths first started increasing, there were all sorts of rumors. From defective childhood vaccines to pesticides in our food – people grasped for any excuse.”

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26. “I slowly stand, looking down at my clothes. I wish that there were bloodstains or tears, something to outwardly show how hurt I am.”

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27. “I have to live if I want to be remembered.”

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28. “When you don’t have much, you hold on to what matters. You hold on with both hands.”

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29. “Realm swayed and put his hand over his heart, watching after her. A sharp pain from knowing that you want something you don’t deserve. That you can never have again.”

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30. “For a moment we knew what it felt like to be free.”

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31. “Forgiveness is voluntary. There should be no “have to” about it.”

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32. “I know what a wrong answer can do.”

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33. “It’s The Program or me. And I decide it’s going to be me.”

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34. “He turned to stare down at his latte, wiping hard at his cheeks as the tears started to fall. He didn’t push away the pain. It was his and he would own it. He wouldn’t bury it again.”

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35. “What we need is for good people to stand up against bad people – simple really. But in this society, they never put the burden on men to be the good people in this scenario.”

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36. “Years ago, when physicians didn’t know how to treat the mentally ill, they began shock therapy, and in extreme cases – lobotomies. They would poke holes in their brains, Miss Barstow. Human beings are cruel creatures. And what we don’t understand, we tamper with until we destroy it.”

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37. “Truth is, I don’t know what Deacon wants anymore – it’s not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I’m the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted effort to resist his temptation, even if sometimes I’d like nothing more than to surround myself with his affection.”

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38. “I lean forward to press my lips to his, letting him have me in a way that only he can.”

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39. “No, I don’t have a boyfriend. I stabbed the last one.”

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40. “Sometimes the beautiful memories are the saddest ones of all” -Elias.”

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41. “All of us sit at the table, like a family – a dysfunctional one, but a family nonetheless.”

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42. “We all have guilt. It just can’t be all that we have.”

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43. “Haven’t you heard? Money doesn’t buy happiness. Just really nice cars.”

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44. “Things are not exactly going to plan.”

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45. “Deacon was good, too-almost as good as me. His charisma draws people in, even if it’s only a facade.”

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46. “Girls need to protect each other, especially when adults do nothing but watch.”

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47. “Do you really think anything can ever be the same again? She’s empty, Sloane. She’s the walking dead now.”

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48. “Keeping a secret isn’t the same as being a liar.”

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49. “But when it comes to Michael Realm, I might be a little murderous. But just a little.” He pinches his fingers together.”

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50. “My eyes are trained on the trees, but my heart begins to race. “Maybe it’s time you try,” I say. I’m not in denial; I’ve always known Realm was hiding something. But now, here, I’m scared of what he has to say.”

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