Debbie > Debbie's Quotes

“There goes the world's wimpiest vampire.”
― Heather Swain, Josie Griffin is Not a Vampire

“Sam, you always have a choice. Always.”
― Sean Rodman, Dead Run

“We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we’re faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart’s a stubborn organ.”
― Kim Harrington, The Dead and Buried

“It was one thing to be giving up on myself, but moms were supposed to believe in you to the very end.”
― Erin Jade Lange, Butter

“I’m no rock star, but I’m definitely not ugly.”
― Cal Armistead, Being Henry David

“I wish I knew how to turn the volume down on the sadness in this girl’s eyes. I wish I could take her out of this dark, smelly alley and tuck her away some place safe.”
― Cal Armistead, Being Henry David

“Facing up to this is better than running away."
Maybe so. But I’m so good at running.”
― Cal Armistead

“On the outside, I’m the perfect kid–like a statue of perfect marble, serene and unreal. Inside, it’s all snakes and maggots and broken glass.”
― Cal Armistead, Being Henry David

“The werewolf pointed at a bench next to the door into the Kirkwoods’ tomb. “Sit. Wait.”
Did I mention werewolves were chatty?”
― Mindee Arnett, The Nightmare Affair

“To learn a thing was to know a thing; to know a thing was to understand a thing; to understand a thing was to face it without fear.”
― Ashley Edward Miller, Colin Fischer

“Sometimes, you get answers to questions you never thought to ask. And sometimes, the answers make you wish you hadn’t asked the questions in the first place.”
― Zack Stentz, Colin Fischer

“The truth is? Everyone lies. Every single person.”
― Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach

“Safe places exist only where people aren’t.”
― Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach

“people usually do something to have someone come after them.”
― Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach

“Life isn’t about how long you live it, but what you do with it. When you have lived for too long and experienced so much, the lines between right and wrong, good and bad, begin to blur. Immortality isn’t a goal, it’s a temptation–a punishment.”
― Abeni Morris, The Exemeus

“But sometimes you have to sacrifice your life for the safety of others, even if you don’t know who those people are.”
― Abeni Morris, The Exemeus

“It is always better to die like a hero than live like a coward.”
― Folami Morris, The Exemeus

“Their smiles are lies.

Most smiles are.”
― Kiersten White, Mind Games

“Let me be a lesson to you, kids. There is a reason you shouldn’t get all cocky. Because if you do, the universe will come along and kick your ass hard.”
― Tellulah Darling, My Ex From Hell

“Because when you’ve been around forever, you have to find something outside yourself to believe in or go mad. I believe in humanity. I believe in you.”
― Tellulah Darling, My Ex From Hell

“Parents: Perfecting ways to humiliate their children since the dawn of time.”
― Shannon Messenger, Let the Sky Fall

“You deserve to be happy," he whispers. "No matter what you think or what you did. You deserve to be happy.”
― Shannon Messenger, Let the Sky Fall

“The moral of the story here is that if you’re ever offered anything that seems like it might lead to sex, there is no turning back. You just have to take it as it comes or you will remain a virgin for life.”
― Bennett Madison, September Girls

“Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.”
― Bennett Madison, September Girls

“The minute you think you’re safe is the same minute you’re fucked.”
― Bennett Madison, September Girls

“Because isn’t the whole point of loving someone–being in love with someone–that you understand her as well as you understand yourself? Isn’t loving someone almost like becoming that person, and them becoming you? I mean, isn’t that the point, at least in a way?”
― Bennett Madison, September Girls

“I don’t know what heaven smells like, but if it doesn’t smell like freshly baked cookies, I will be really disappointed.”
― Rachel Hawkins, School Spirits

“When you don’t have much family left, you’ll do anything to protect what you have.”
― Rachel Hawkins, School Spirits

“You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you'll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times.”
― Andrew Smith

“If you’re not used to compliments, they can really mess you up for a minute.”
― Louise Rozett, Confessions of an Almost-Girlfriend