Daria Gray > Daria's Quotes

“Because God didn't write the Bible. Men did, probably uneducated ones.”
― Jenny Hubbard, And We Stay

“Maybe this is all love is and all it will ever be-- boys fucking girls and pretending it's love, girls getting fucked and pretending they like it, saying "I love you, too," and wanting to throw up.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“And that's when it hits me, the punch in the stomach, the carving out of my insides. That's when I realize that none of this is a movie. I will not go out with a bang. There is no ending. There are no credits. I will wake up and I will keep waking up and this will always be waiting for me.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“If you are still, no one can hurt you. If you play dead, there is nothing to kill.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“It feels like the ground is breathing and the air has hands, like everything is moving except me, like I am the only thing solid, like it is the rest of the world that is dizzy.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“There is a picture of me in their heads, a picture of someone I don't know yet. She is not the chubby girl with the braces and bad perm. She is not the girl hiding in the bathroom at recess. She is someone new, a blank slate they have named beautiful. That is what I am now: beautiful, with this new body and face and hair and clothes. Beautiful, with this erasing of history.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“They are ghosts of people I never knew, which the rain will wash away.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“I want to crush my cigarette on his eyelid. I would rather he keep fucking me for the rest of the night than lie here staring at me tracing my ribs with his fingertips, acting like what happened meant something.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“He backs out the door batting those eyelashes I thought were so sexy when I first met him. Now I want to pluck them out one by one.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“Smoke follows beauty.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“I feel the ghost of his fingers inside me.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“And my name sounds like flowers in his mouth.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“I feel myself floating without the weight of him on my body.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“People don't just let you change identities, not unless there's something in it for them.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“And what they're doing could be called kissing but it's more like sword fighting with tongues.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“Smoke is not chasing me and making my eyes sweat. My eyes are not burning. I am not crying. I am not standing behind my mother and she is not facing the wall and she is not saying, 'Smoke follows beauty.' Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“Maybe that's all love is-one person saying it because they think they're supposed to and the other person feeling to guilty to say anything else”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“There are voices you can silence.”
― Amy Reed, Beautiful

“I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A”
― Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars

“Patience is a conquering virtue.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“Sometimes I like you so much I can’t stand it. It fills up inside me, all the way to the brim, and I feel like I could overflow. I like you so much I don’t know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I’m going to see you again. And then, when you look at me the way you do, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“I say, “In the contract we said we wouldn’t break each other’s hearts. What if we do it again?” Fiercely he says, “What if we do? If we’re so guarded, it’s not going to be anything. Let’s do it fucking for real, Lara Jean. Let’s go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Your body is yours to protect and to enjoy.” She raises both eyebrows at me meaningfully. “Whoever you should choose to partake in that enjoyment, that is your choice, and choose wisely. Every man that ever got to touch me was afforded an honor. A privilege.” Stormy waves her hand over me. “All this? It’s a privilege to worship at this temple, do you understand my meaning? Not just any young fool can approach the throne. Remember my words, Lara Jean. You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever.”
“I had no idea you were such a feminist,” I say.
“Feminist?” Stormy makes a disgusted sound in her throat. “I’m no feminist. Really, Lara Jean!”
“Stormy, don’t get worked up about it. All it means is that you believe men and women are equal, and should have equal rights.”
“I don’t think any man is my equal. Women are far superior, and don’t you forget it. Don’t forget any of the things I just told you.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Peter. Peter Kavinsky.” Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Don’t let it happen to you, Lara Jean. Don’t get too serious to where things can’t go back. Be in love with Peter if you want, but be careful with your heart. Things feel like they’ll be forever, but they aren’t. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“He kisses like . . . like it could be his job.” Margot giggles and lifts the spoons off her eyes. “Like a male prostitute?”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw