Sam > Sam's Quotes

“I hate the word beautiful. Hate it. The word beautiful somehow gives the world permission to make wrongful assumptions about me, like that I don't have a brain. Beautiful somehow gives men permission to say the phrase as a secret password in my direction, and I should therefore fall at their feet. Beautiful makes people believe they can say anything they want about or to me and that I shouldn't be angry.
Nothing in the universe could be more wrong.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“I love you enough to never make you choose.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Because growing up means making tough choices, and doing the right thing doesn’t necessarily mean doing the thing that feels good.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Her eyes met mine again. “So what does this mean for us?”
I lowered my forehead to hers. “It means you’re mine.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“We’d read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Please, Noah, I don't want to do this wrong. Tell me how to make you feel good."
He shifted so that his body rested beside mine, his leg and arm still draped over me. I felt small under his warmth and strength.
His chocolate-brown eyes softened. "Being with you feels good. Touching you-" he tucked a curl behind my ear. "-feels good. I have never wanted anyone like I want you. There's nothing you can do wrong when just breathing makes everything right.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“I understand trying to please someone you thinks loves you. To keep that love, you keep twisting and bending yourself to become who they want you to be until you eventually break. There’s a hole in them, a hole they need filled, and they want you to become the circle that will fit into them to make them complete, even though you’re a square. It’s an awful place to be, the person responsible for someone else’s happiness, because being human, we’re going to fail.
And by being human, we’ll take the lashing when we never meet expectations.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“I'm just a girl on a midway, he's just a boy on a midway, and not everything has to end like a daydream.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“You think it’s smart for a guy like me to kiss the governor’s daughter? You need to know who I was before, so you’ll stay away from me, and before, I wasn’t a nice guy.”
Elle studies me too seriously and long enough it causes me to shift my footing. “You want to kiss me?”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“As much as I want nothing more than to be around you, as much as I want to touch you and kiss you and hear your laughter and your voice, I can’t. You and me – it can’t happen. Not in public. Not in private. I lost one year of my life, and I can’t lose any more.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“Amazing things are going to happen because that’s what happens when you find your wings and finally fly.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“What is this, Drix?” I whisper. “What is this between us?”
“I don’t know,” he says against by neck. “But I’m not ready to let it go yet.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“I don’t know who I am anymore, but I do know I don’t want to be this girl. I just want to be me. But according to Sean, I don’t get what I want unless I compromise, and I don’t want to compromise.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“Several photographers have mumbled between each other about my glasses. They’re just jealous because I make glasses sexy, and it must suck to not be me.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“Let's who those rich pricks that talent beats money.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“This love, it has been worth it—even if I'm losing a piece of my heart in the process.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“Life shouldn’t revolve about being the best, and childhood definitely shouldn’t. You should have given me the room to explore who I was without the pressure of succeeding each and every single time.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“We’re stronger together, Drix. I promise we are. Please don’t give up on us. Please don’t give up on yourself.”
“I don’t know,” he says into my hair. “I don’t know where to go from here. I don’t know how to be the man you deserve when we can’t even be seen together in public. I don’t know who I am, especially when I’m never going to be anything more than who I was.”
― Katie McGarry, Say You'll Remember Me

“The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are bot failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dreams behind for the next generation to stumble across.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“People cried over endings, but sometimes you had to cry over new beginnings. I wouldn't forget what I'd left. But I was going to be excited—at least as much as I could be—about this start and however it would end.”
― Mariana Zapata, All Rhodes Lead Here

“You gotta come back."
"Come Back?" I echoed like I'd never heard those words before.
"Home," they said at the same time.”
― Mariana Zapata, All Rhodes Lead Here

“I found a place where I belong,
A place with love that feels like home again.”
― Mariana Zapata, All Rhodes Lead Here

“Both, Baby." He huffed a laugh. "Feel like I should get a slap on my wrist for calling you that even if it is your name."
Baby and the Late Night Howlers”
― Kathryn Moon

“No one needs to see us for us to exist. No one needs to love us for us to exist. The sky is filled with light.

The world is full of wonders.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife

“because Rory was right. Nick would always need the give and take. The freedom to let go and the power to take control. If Nick loved Rory, shouldn't he be able to give Rory all of himself? Maybe he didn't know what love was either (p.10)”
― E.M. Denning, What He Fears

“Andrew's innocence coupled with the way he latched onto Nick made Rory think of him as a baby bear, someone who gave friendship easily and had an endearing innocence. Someone who desperately wanted guidance and who clung to authority figures. (p.25)”
― E.M. Denning, What He Fears

“Did you know Elise uses chocolate chip scented bath products?"
"Stellan rolled his head over the side as disbelief rocked through him. "What?"
"You know, like shampoo and conditioner and body wash and stuff. she was afraid she'd forget what you smelled like. she was afraid of losing you in more ways than one.”
― Lana Kole, Fighting Instincts