Why Are You Here? Quotes

“I’d kill for your ass, end my life to save yours. But I think you’ll kill me first, Little Bird.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“You fell into my life, Phoenix, but you’re not a stranger to me. You’re not a random fuck or a one-night stand. You’re home.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“Because, Baby Bird, I’m crazier than you are. We’re a match made in hell.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“If they actually took the time to listen to the music, they’d hear, see, feel that I was fucking drowning.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“It was a pep talk from you to you, and guess what? That pep talk saved my fucking life.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“You’re a sickly sweet menace to my mental space.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“I’m not afraid of death, Phoenix, never have been. But I’m afraid of living life without you in it.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“I felt more around Judah Colt than I did around anyone else. He kicked my numb to the curb, set my soul on fire, and that’s exactly what I wanted. To feel, to live.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“He was famous and completely out of my league—spoiled, broken, and angry.  I was broken as hell—flighty, bitter, and trapped in a tragedy.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“Did you hear that, stars above? Judah Colt thinks he can order me around.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“No, she was the kind of insane you kept close, beat the fuck out of other people for touching. She felt like the type of madness that deserved to be protected.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“I got comfortable in the stony silence of misery—it almost felt good to drown because treading water took up too much energy. I didn’t have any to spare.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“I spent the last ten years stuck, stilted, and missing the fuck out on normal, fun experiences, because I couldn’t fucking hang. Shoving my shit aside, turning my brain off, it was all too hard for me to do alone, and I was suffering in more ways than one. Sheltering myself was just easier.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“intensity. “You fell into my life, Phoenix, but you’re not a stranger to me. You’re not a random fuck or a one-night stand. You’re home.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“I named everything—every important thing in my life had a name that only I called it. My guitar was Hotley, even Pharaoh’s G-Class was called G-Dog. And now, this girl was, “Baby Bird.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“At least we know it’s going to end terribly.” He looked down at me with determination. “Fuck that.” “What?” “There won’t be an end. We’ll just do this until one of us kills the other.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“Lighters are for blunts, cigarettes, and candles, not lyrics. Your lyrics are gold, baby, don’t set them on fire. Light me up instead.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“You’re the only thing that quiets the noise. Your voice is my favorite sound.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“You and I can talk about suicide like everyone else talks about football because we spend every day holding hands with death. We welcome it. It’s always there as an option, waiting to drag us down and away from all our bullshit, and because of that, we’re no longer afraid of it. Instead, we face our demons on a daily basis, and not many people understand what it’s like to live like that”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“It’s up to us to want to fight the demons and set goals to get better, because if we don’t, we’ll drown.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“what’s between me and you? This is the type of overwhelming, all-consuming, completely-out-of-my-control passion that every person looks for. Even you.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“I got up and started walking around the rooftop, looking over each edge, calculating the amount of time it would take for my body to hit the ground below.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“I want to figure out how to live, period,”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“Little by little, moment by moment, the plan was to get myself to a place where my smiles weren’t fake and my mind wasn’t stunted by fear of the unknown.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“A lot of things went into my decision to flush the pills down the toilet instead of swallowing them. Mainly, I couldn’t stop thinking about what it would feel like to die. Would I be in pain? Would my lungs stop working first? Or would my throat close up? Would I be able to feel the drugs in my system? Or would I just…black out?”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“I wanted to clear my head of all the bullshit and just cease to be. ”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“There’s a saying that’s been repeatedly overused, but for people like me, it’s our truth… I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. Fucking dead inside.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?

“I was one hundred percent that girl. So fucking broken, she couldn’t see she was driving herself into an early grave all on her own, without the help of everything she had trapped in her head.”
― Brianna Jean, Why Are You Here?