Barely Breathing Quotes

“It’s not easy to talk like this with other people because they don’t know. They don’t know what it’s like to be hated by the people who are supposed to love you.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

“I knew I never was, and never would be, someone she loved. And whether she deserved me or not, it was still painful to admit.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

“People change. I mean, you barely know who you are when you enter, and you spend that time figuring out what you want from life, and who you want in it. The next thing you know, the people you always thought would be there, aren’t. And the person you thought you could trust with everything, isn’t the person you knew at”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

“We can contemplate the meaning of your life all you want, but know that you’re my meaning…the reason behind just about everything I do—and I would never want to change that.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

“I close my eyes to the truth. I refuse to see what’s happening, convinced that I can handle whatever it is—believing that I’m strong enough and will recognize when I’m not.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

“His smoky blue eyes connected with mine, and he whispered, ‘I breathed for you.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

“make it to a future that still hasn’t happened, or avoid a past that won’t let me go. I don’t remember when I’ve ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I’m in.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

“close my eyes to the truth. I refuse to see what’s happening, convinced that I can handle whatever it is—believing that I’m strong enough and will recognize when I’m not.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

“soothed, observing me. I had a hard time meeting her eyes. “And sometimes they don’t know how to ask for help. They’re so caught up in their own pain, they end up hurting everyone around them. I wish you didn’t keep getting hurt.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing

“I wanted to scream, “Just tell us already!” But of course I didn’t. I remained still in the backseat, barely breathing.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Barely Breathing