Anarchy at Prescott High Quotes

“Some things break when you put too much pressure on them, but those shards they break into can be twice as deadly.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“When you accept a person for who they are, you don’t choose bits and pieces. You accept every part of them, right down to the rotten bits. Because everybody wants somebody to love their rottenness.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Now that I’m in the same position, I can see why he did it. Why he knew he needed to do it. The dark will always play by its own rules. It’s all well and good to want a superhero, but it’s impossible to expect someone made of light to fight the shadows; they might disappear when there’s a ray of sunshine, but they’re not gone. They’ve just retreated. The night always returns, after all.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Vulnerability leaves a person open to endless pain.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“I take another drag on the cigarette, certain that they’re stolen, positive that they taste better because they were obtained with crafty fingers and tomfoolery.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“And that’s why it’s perfect for us as a safety word. It means havoc, but only to some people. Everyone else just misunderstands and the meaning changes.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Even just that simple touch resurrects so many good memories for me and so many wishes for the future. That's how powerful first love can be, a transcendent force so powerful it could defy gravity itself.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Even if I don’t always know who I am and what I want, I do know one thing: cars are in my fucking blood. Cars … and Bernadette Blackbird.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“I’m just relieved as fuck that it isn’t actually mine. Nah, the only girl I want to have a baby with is Bernadette. I figure she’ll have to have one for each of us, so we’ll have like, five kids. Five kids, five dads, one mom. Most of the guys on our crew don’t understand this arrangement. They’d rather they were the one with five women on the side. The thing is, when you find the right woman, you know it. And when that woman is the same person your brothers love, it all falls together. Family.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“He saved my life. He came for me. We can never be parted again.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Who am I if I’m not wearing dark lipstick and black eyeliner, falsies and bullshit? Who the actual motherfucking fuck am I?”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Forgive yourself for the mistakes you’ve made, learn from them, and take my hand so we can move onto the next big thing. If life isn’t always moving forward, then it’s stuck in place and sinking. You are my queen; you deserve that fucking crown;”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Because she might not know it, but she’s the final name on her own list. Every mistake she’s ever made, every bad memory, every misstep, she lets those things haunt her.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“You hesitated to kill Kali because there’s still a shred of innocence in you. You are living proof that the world can try its hardest to crush a person’s soul and still fail. You are second chances and beautiful beginnings, Bernadette. You hesitated because you wanted to make sure you gave that girl every chance in the world. If you have to believe a lie, believing that other people are inherently good is one you might as well stick with.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“I hate you,” she tells me, but I smile because even if she means it, she loves me just as much, so it doesn’t fucking matter. From the schoolyard to the wedding, she’s always been mine.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“I stalked you, Bernadette,” Cal says with a sigh, his shoulders slumping slightly. “There is no other way to put it. I can’t romanticize it or explain it. I’m sure it isn’t healthy.” He looks back up at me, but there’s no shame or regret in his gaze. None at all. “I’d do it all over again though, if given the chance. We are beautiful poison, not perfume.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“You’re not alone, Bernadette. You never were. If you need to fall, let your knees go and I’ll catch you.” “You can’t sweet-talk me during the middle of a robbery,”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“I’m a dichotomy, sitting here in leather and tattoos and stolen lipstick, but I’m holding a chocolate milk carton and sitting in a cafeteria like a child.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“I have a huge collection, most of it filched just like her outfit. It looks better that way, when it’s stolen. There’s an edge to the color that you can’t whip up in a factory, something that defies chemistry. It’s the danger of getting caught; it’s the satisfaction of fucking with the establishment.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“I love you, Blackbird,” he breathes, surprising the fuck out of me. That I did not expect, not from Hael, not so soon. But then, we’ve been craving one another’s company for a decade now. Two, frightened little kids on a stormy night in a shelter full of lost souls.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“When he kisses me, he tastes like heartbreak and drive-ins from the fifties, classic cars and hot summer passion.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“How can I keep hold of so many men? I wonder, hating that that’s the way I think, how I was raised and brought up. How do I keep them? instead of how do I make sure they know what I’m worth and how lucky they are?”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“And it’s such a sad fucking thing to do that it makes me sick. Put your hands on me, and I have the right to put my goddamn hands on you. Don’t touch people that don’t want to be touched. If you really need to learn no means no then you should check your privilege at the door and shut the fuck up.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“I just think people always want what everyone else has. Nothing is more desirable than something that isn’t yours yet, but could be, if you just played your cards right. Nothing is prettier than the forbidden, nothing shines so bright and so wicked on a moonlit night.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Ah, a nickname for James,” I murmur, thinking of the book, Practical Magic, and the movie that followed. Personally—and I know this is a cardinal sin among book lovers—I prefer the movie.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Forgive me if I’m a little off. Fucking five dudes on the regular is exhausting.” That’s a lie, it’s thrilling. You just don’t want them to know how fucking thrilled you are. You love this, love being bad and finding yourself in trouble and feeling emotions like thunderstorms.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Everyone—even rich Oak Valley Prep girls—know that Prescott boys are the best fucks. Shit, they look even thirstier than I am, and I am one thirsty fucking bitch.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Jesus Christ, what is wrong with people? Why can’t they just say sorry, I was wrong and move the fuck on. It doesn’t have to be a production either way.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“Unlike Oscar, however, I know that Cal isn’t running away. Instead, he’s trying to teach me something. Good things come to those who wait.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High

“With all the shit we have going on, we know that forever cannot and will not be promised by anyone or anything.”
― C.M. Stunich, Anarchy at Prescott High