Please Remain Calm Quotes

“I wonder if all hearts are made with the same pockets for fear and pain and sadness. They must not be, or if they are, maybe we all don’t know how to use them. Because otherwise so many of our stories would have ended differently.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“I’m afraid everything I was is gone and all that’s left is everything I’m not.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“My dad always said we're at the mercy of something greater than ourselves and whatever humanity we don't show to others, we pay for. We're paying for.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“A successful piss on the side of the road and we didn’t die. What a great time that was.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“It hits me: that's going to die with me, that story. My story. My family, everyone in the school, their stories too–I'm the last person who could tell them and if I die, they're gone.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“Times like these, you go so far out of your way to assure yourself you’re not alone. You memorize the person you’re with: the way they breathe, the way they move, the warmth of their body. All these things, you reach for every second of the day and when they’re gone, you don’t even have to open your eyes to know it. She’s gone.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“She was supposed to be the strong one,” she says.
“Sloane.”
“But I’ve gotten so much farther than her.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“People aren’t supposed to be able to fathom eternity. It’s an amount of time beyond all human comprehension. But ever since everything ended, I think I’m getting closer to understanding it. These little tastes of it in the way hell stretches around us, making pain endless and moments like this one rare and fleeting. Making moments like this one everything.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“The blinds are drawn and the light in here is so weak, but I would know her silhouette anywhere. I memorized it. She’s here and every moment without her was a lie.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“I'm here because they're not, so I have to make it mean something. I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“Now is not about gathering courage, it's about staying one step ahead of my fear.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“Because you made it here on a lot less" he says and he has no idea how on the mark he is.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“I've fought off groups before and making it out in one piece was pure dumb luck. That's it. These days it feels like alive is an accidental state of being.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“I have never seen a more desperate symbol of hope since the world ended and I've never felt the world more desperate to make a mockery of it.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“And there was so much time in the school, time to weigh words, turn them into things like I’m here because they’re not, so I have to make it mean something. I’m afraid everything I was is gone and all that’s left is everything I’m not.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“Look, Sloane, I get it. I do. It's like being ... it's like standing between glass, the grief. And behind you is everything like it was and ahead of you is–"
"Nothing." she finishes. "There's nothing left."
"We're left," I say. "That's something, And you must believe it because every time you've had a choice, you kept going." I stare at the man, wishing I could close his wrists, stitch them shut. "But maybe you don't realize you're doing it because you've spent so long telling yourself you can't."
I rub my face, missing the bed. After a while she speaks.
"What can you possibly want from this?" she asks.
"Everything we lost.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“How many people you lost?" he asks asfter a second.
God. Numbers heavy in my mind will be even heavier off my tongue. I don't know what's worse, holding their names, or turning them into a body count.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“How are you feeling?"
She rubs the back of her neck. "Stupid question."
"Well, ask me and I'll tell you I'm fucking great.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“Carving out our own place, making something out of nothing. It feels as right as it doesn't and I think maybe I was wrong. We can't have exactly everything we lost. But maybe we can come close.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“The infected give chase and I won't look back, can't. Hearing them is enough, a cacophony of breathless shrieking that all means one thing: mine, mine, mine.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“A used bookstore. Paperback carnage. Books ripped apart, spines broken pages everywhere. Stories so far past their usefulness.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“The quiet is eerie, the absence of the living dead. I'm no stranger to this kind of silence and I'm almost ready to believe not seeing the infected is worse than seeing them because at least wherever they are, you know where you shouldn't be.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“I keep my eyes fixed on those silhouettes in the distance and all I can think is how could we lost the world to something so still?”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“Thank you for visiting! Come again!
Fuck this place.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“Do you have a credit card or something?” I ask because who wouldn’t have a credit card handy during the zombie fucking apocalypse.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“Sloane is sleeping. I sit down on the edge of the bed and listen to her breathing and then I match my breath to hers because if she’s still here, so am I.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm