Say It Out Loud Quotes

“(It’s dangerous to tell a millennial we’re particularly gifted at something when we were raised on Disney Channel original movies and parents who said we could be and do anything if we set our minds to it.)”
― Ashley Schumacher, Say It Out Loud

“It's not just that it's a story that so many people love, but it's also because we have to continually defend our right as people to have different kinds of stories. And just because it's mostly loved by girls or women does not make it inherently wrong or worse or poorly plotted. Not everything has to be for you. Not everything has to end in a Spartan battle or with a head on a sack.”
― Ashley Schumacher, Say It Out Loud

“I click his number at the top of the screen and hit the CALL button, breaking our generation's pact to text and ONLY text unless speaking with mouth words was mutually agreed upon beforehand...He sounds worried, like the only reason someone would initiate a phone call is because they 've been kidnapped.”
― Ashley Schumacher, Say It Out Loud

“Because that's another terrible, terrible thing about having fiction and imagination be your biggest coping mechanism: It take you a split second. That's it.
In the time it takes you to inhale, you have imagined an entire world that rolls out like the plot of a book...I'm so used to writing myself into the stories I wish I were living, I accidentally blur the lines just enough to forget what is real.”
― Ashley Schumacher, Say It Out Loud

“But she knew me better than anyone," I say, my turn to interupt. "She-"

"Knew, Juniper. You've changed. Her leaving changed you."

The tears are pooling in my nose, but I refuse to let them reach my eyes.

"I know that," I say quietly. "I'm not stupid."

"I never said-"

"But if I do something else, then wherever she is--heaven or the great free craft store in the sky or whatever--she won't know what I'm doing. At least this way there's still a connection, something that stayed the same before and after she left.”
― Ashley Schumacher, Say It Out Loud