The Rebel of Raleigh High Quotes

“It was a boy with a clean record, a winning smile and a glorious halo who broke me. Ironically, it’s the boy with the rap sheet, a body full of ink and the dangerous glint in his eye who’s putting me back together.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“I imagine us being together. I imagine having you to myself, that you were mine. It's so easy to picture walking down the hallway at Raleigh with your hand in mine because I know it would be easy. It would be so much fucking better because I wouldn't be alone anymore. I could fall in love with you, Alex. I could see myself doing that.” I nod, trying not to stumble over the terrifying words. “It wouldn’t take much”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“Your life is fucked up, too. But I see you, Silver. I see you looking at me, and I can feel the want in you. This playing around, tiptoeing around the truth is just fucking…it's fucking pointless. You like me, too. You care about me, too. You don't know why yet, but I can show you. I'm a risk. I'm a danger. I'm not a fucking safe bet by anyone's standards. But I can be good for you if you let me. At least I think I can. You're the first fucking person in this entire world who’s ever made me want to fucking try.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“Just…stop. Quit hiding from the hard stuff. I’m not fucking hiding from it. Not anymore. If you can’t just be real for one second, then I’ll do it for the both of us. My life is a fucking mess right now. I have so much shit going on, and I’ve been trying my best to forget that you even exist, but I can’t, okay? I like you. I care about you.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“Alex isn’t safe enough to be right for me, and I’m not whole enough to be right for him, either. That’s really all there is to it.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“Is this the part where you pretend you’re late for something, make your excuses and you leave?” I whisper.
Alex huffs out a shallow, soft burst of laughter. “No, Dolcezza. This is the part when I realize you’ve stolen my fucking soul and I have no chance of ever getting it back.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“She crooks an eyebrow at me, and I mirror her expression, making her smile.
Fuck. Me. Dead.
I made her smile.
…
God, how am I ever going to be worthy of this girl? I have no clue, but I'm gonna figure it out if it kills me.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“You’re the most beautiful fucking thing I have ever witnessed with my own two eyes. I am watching you just as much as you’re watching me…and I don’t trust myself to look away.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“Why the hell would I intrigue you, for Christ’s sake?”
He doesn’t miss a beat. “Because you’re still standing. Because, after everything you went through, you didn’t fucking break.”
He’s so close to me now. Closer than he’s ever been before. I’m unsteady on my feet, and my heart is rioting against my ribs, as though it’s trying to break free from its cage and flee the scene of a crime.
“Strength is drawn to strength, Silver, and I think there’s a chance that you might be the strongest person I have ever met.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“A wolf and a rose—savage and wild, beautiful and tender.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“Sometimes, the truth will ruin your damn life.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“Don’t you dare let me go. Loving you is the only thing that makes any sense right now.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“When Alex Moretti looks at you, you feel your soul laid bare, and it’s the most disturbing, thrilling thing I’ve ever experienced.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“It’s better for you if we’re not seen together anyway.”
“What makes you think that?”
“…I’m the pariah of Raleigh High. Sitting anywhere with me is the quickest, most efficient way to commit social suicide. I am broken, Alex.”
… “It’s okay to be broken. You have every right to be. Just don’t let them keep on breaking you. That’s not how you win this particular game.”
I wrench my hand free. “This isn’t a fucking game.”
Looking around the parking lot, as if seeing his surroundings for the very first time. “Of course it is,” he says. “This is high school, Silver. This is the biggest game there is.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“was a boy with a clean record, a winning smile and a glorious halo who broke me. Ironically, it’s the boy with the rap sheet, a body full of ink and the dangerous glint in his eye who’s putting me back together.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“You know how to work a Keurig, Alessandro Moretti? Or are you more for decoration?”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“This is the part when I realize you’ve stolen my fucking soul and I have no chance of ever getting it back.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“doesn’t matter how old any of us get. We’re all still fumbling around in the dark, pretending like we know what the fuck is going on.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“It’s okay to be broken.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“That's it then, Argento. The decision's been made. You're mine, and I'm yours. And”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“I promise. You won’t even need to try, Argento. I’ll make it as easy as breathing.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“The fact that you can buy my ‘style’ in H& M might have robbed me of my threatening reputation… but that doesn’t mean that I am not a threat.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“It’s okay to be broken. You have every right to be. Just don’t let them keep on breaking you. That’s not how you win this particular game.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“It’s okay to be broken. You have every right to be. Just don’t let them keep on breaking you.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“I’m not going to force you to fall for me, Silver. You’ve already been forced to do too much. But don’t blame me if I try and change your mind.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High

“I am seventeen-years-old. The world is changing around me so rapidly that I worry I might never find my place in it. Just a few short years ago, I was so sure of everything. I loved boybands, and horses, drawing and playing my guitar. Then, almost overnight, nothing was certain anymore, and things I thought I knew to be true no longer were. It was as though I was a caterpillar, happy, learning and growing, and then without warning I began to transform into something else. There has been no chrysalis, though, no cocoon to hide away inside, safe, until I’m ready to reemerge into the world, new and fresh and complete. No, all of my transformations have taken place out in the open, in public, for all to see, and the process has been horrific.”
― Callie Hart, The Rebel of Raleigh High