Throwaway Girls Quotes

“There are people who come into our lives to disprove the lies we believe about ourselves.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“I couldn't take another day of held breaths and burying my screams beneath pain so I could feel something that wasn't impotent fury.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“I know that feeling, what it's like to live through that moment when you realize you're on your own, that things can never go back, that the people who are supposed to love you will never be what you need.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“Some people are ponds. Or puddles. Fun to splash in but all it takes is a sunny day or two and everything goes dry.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“No matter how many miles I run from this place there will always be a piece of me here.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“I'm Caroline and I'm Livie. I'm the athlete with the perfect grades who blackmails her teacher. I'm the girl that will always love Willa. And I'm the girl with the gun, pulling the trigger.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“I know what it's like to claw yourself back from that place. And how, sometimes, it takes a display of compassion to show you it's worth it.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“I'll never understand how I'm supposed to forgive the unforgivable. I can never forget the things she didn't do for Willa. But I also know what it's like to wish the world would go on without you.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“Did you know at any given time in America, there are between twenty-five and fifty active serial killers? The FBI sys they only kill about 150 people per year but lots of the stats show that number is way underreported." She sucks in a breath. "Did you know there are currently almost 250,000 girls missing in the US?”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“I've broken the chains and left them in ragged pieces.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“She showed me there's strength in tenderness, that compassion exists in even the worst of circumstances.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“And with my dying breath, I moved this mountain.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“Promise you won't forget us. Don't forget to let the light in. Love is forever.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“There were so many things I didn't notice. I outfitted myself with a pair of blinders that saw nothing but graduation, freedom and Willa.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“I can't read the words she wrote - my proof that joy exists, my reminder that hope is possible - knowing they're all a lie.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“If I'm the ocean, I can create a flood to destroy everything.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“Every word steals a piece of me until I'm nothing.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“A hidden connection is stringer than an obvious one.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“The grains inside the hourglass spill minutes until the moment of my expulsion.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“If time had meaning once, it doesn't now. My life used to revolve around the steady advancement of the clock.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“Family of secrets. In truth, we've all been blackmailing each other for years.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“The ones who pay the price for the life they were born into.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“I know exactly what it's like to not belong in the place you're supposed to call home, and I know what it's like to do everything necessary.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“It's hard not to stare at it, knowing whatever's inside has the power to control lives and disrupt futures. There's life and death behind those heavy metal walls, and plenty that would make you wish there was no time in between.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“Our truths change. They stretch and split as we grow, the shredding of them leaving us raw and exposed. If we're lucky, we're surrounded by love in those moments when our tender flesh is still rebuilding. If we're not, we grow scars.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“She was an earthquake, but one that belonged to me. She created fault lines so that light could shine in.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“I'd rather suffer through truth than revel in ignorance.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“They're the rumble of thunder, not the deafening roar of our very selves splitting open against the force of an earthquake.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls

“Everybody likes to act like girls are all over-sensitive and needy, but anyone who's ever dated a guy knows exactly how fragile dudes' egos are.”
― Andrea Contos, Throwaway Girls