I'm the Girl Quotes

“Every time Nora sees me, it's because she's looking for me, but every time she finds me, it's like I'm not exactly what she hoped.”
― Courtney Summers, I'm the Girl

“He looked at me when he said it. He turned his eyes from the road, making sure I really understood. And I did. Just then, I did. I was suddenly aware of my body, the space it occupied between fading adolescence and aspiring womanhood. My burgeoning chest. My bee-stung lips turned suddenly suggestive. No one had ever called me beautiful like that before. I'd had the inkling that I was, in those leering gazes I sometimes found myself reflected in, or the way I'd glimpse myself in a mirror and lose my breath at what my image seemed to be hinting toward. But this-this was different. The moment Matthew said it, it became true. I was beautiful. It was such a relief.”
― Courtney Summers, I'm the Girl

“I always thought you had to have a special reason for a red lip, but today could be any day. Or maybe it is special.”
― Courtney Summers, I'm the Girl

“I know I'm not an easy person to love, and the times I really feel it are the times I'm asking it of him the most.”
― Courtney Summers, I'm the Girl

“I know I'm not an easy person to love”
― courtney summers, I'm the Girl

“There's something dangerous and unsettling about it, like how I imagine standing at the edge of a cliff would feel... a choice you never considered suddenly in front of you, and it's not that you want to die, it's that you've never felt the real possibility of it before. Like a razor dancing along your skin before that first cut.”
― Courtney Summers, I'm the Girl

“Her sister's death is on her, everywhere. I'm not used to seeing her so undone. Nora is a girl who lingers in the corners of your mind, a mean kind of pretty, bordering on unapproachable. If she looks like she has time for you, it's likely a trick of the light.”
― Courtney Summers, I'm the Girl

“This is how clothes wear me.”
― Courtney Summers, I'm the Girl

“It's more important to know who you are than who you think you're meant to be.”
― Courtney Summers, I'm the Girl