Nerve Quotes

“we've learned an interesting rule about fame. Those who seem desperate for it are the people that others least want to see.”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve

“Why should I pay to watch when I can be paid to play?”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve

“I need to use my mind in a way that slows the out-of-control beating in my chest. The darkness around us could be anywhere, anytime. I could be alive or dead. Okay, I choose alive. While I’m at it, I choose the darkness to be a gentle blanket on a moonless night, where I rest a few feet from a boy who’s warm and sweet. When he holds me, his heart beats strong with what I tell myself is passion, not fear.”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve

“The calmness of dawn offers a daily promise that all things will shift back to normal”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve

“And I’ve got admirers. Okay, probably drunken geeks with nothing better to do than scroll through a thousand videos to check out cleavage shots in slow-mo, but still.”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve

“Why does Seattle have so many crows? Don’t birds like warm weather?”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve

“Sweet is highly overrated." So is responsible, loyal, and every other adjective you'd find scrawled in my yearbook.”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve

“Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve

“I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every time your picture is taken, a part of your soul is stolen strikes me as a certain truth, because I feel my spirit being sucked out of me, into hundreds of all-seeing lenses that simply want to capture my fear, my anger, my performance.”
― Jeanne Ryan, Nerve