One of Us Is Next Quotes

“I don’t understand why the world insists on stuffing kids into boxes we never asked for, and then gets mad when we won’t stay there.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Holding on to resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“We’re endgame.”
I wipe a stray tear from the corner of my eye. “What does that mean?”
“It means that we’ll wind up together eventually. It might take a year for us to sort everything out, or two, or ten. Whatever. But it’ll happen.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“But you can’t change the past, you know? All you can do is try harder next time. So don’t give up on yourself just yet.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Good thing life is long and high school is short”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“How do you make that choice?" I ask almost to myself. "Between what you need and what you want?" I feel like my sister's going through her own version of that. Kris's eyes are on Cooper, too. "You hope they become the same thing, I guess.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Who do you want to be? The guy who goes along or the guy who stands up? This is the time to decide.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“People who never get told no are so bad at hearing it.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Sometimes, you don't know what you want until you see it.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“We’re like the Kardashians, except without any money.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“No matter how much you care about someone, things change when they used to be around all the time an then suddenly, they're not.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“love and hope and beauty still exist, even when things seem impossibly dark.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Addy gives me hope, because even though her life fell apart when Simon’s blog revealed her worst mistake, she put things back together–better than before. She’s stronger, happier, and much closer to her sister. Addy is the queen of second chances, and right now I really need the reminder that those exist.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“It sucks when the person who ruined your life gets to walk around like always.
As if what they did doesn’t matter.
I beg to disagree with your conclusion, though.
There’s always something you can do.—Darkestmind”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“At this moment, I’ve never wanted to do anything as much as I want to grab his face and kiss every inch of it.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“It's not nerdy to care about fonts!”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“I can’t stop thinking about how rare it is to have someone you can be completely real with, even when things get raw and uncomfortable and a little scary. Especially then.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“I'm just wondering if you're familiar with this thing called outside? It has sun and fresh air, or so I've heard."
"Pure rumor and speculation," I say. "Doesn't exist.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“People like to think they're open-minded, but if you toss a tired gender stereotype on their path they'll run with it every time.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“My sisters treated me like a living doll for years, carrying me around so much that I didn’t bother learning to walk until I was almost two.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“If you could be anyhwere in five years, doing anything at all, what would you pick?”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“I think the two of them are the real deal. She‘s still the one he wants. She‘ll probably always be the one he wants”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“The justice system works very differently when you’re white, male, rich, and good-looking.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“People get very angry when police officers are accused of a crime, but that anger is often displaced toward the accuser or the victim. The conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience is well documented.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Tick-tock,”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“And the way he made me laugh when i thought I‘d forgotten how.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“How do you make that choice?” I ask, almost to myself. “Between what you need and what you want?”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“I hate department stores. They're too bright, too loud, and too crammed full of junk that nobody needs. Whenever I'm forced to spend time in one I start thinking about how consumer culture is just one long, expensive, planet-killing distraction from the fact that we're all going to die eventually.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“If I ever actively chose somebody instead of just letting myself get pulled into whatever orbit will have me.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Listen, Maeve. You don’t have to worry about Bronwyn and me. We’re endgame.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next