“The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.” WorldMeanRealizingGrowing UpGrowing Author:Elizabeth Scott
“You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.” MeanLittlesThreeAsksWatchesLove YouReadyHairReally MeanHis Smile Author:Elizabeth Scott
“I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine. I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayWantFeelsLooksHeartKindMeanI CanWholeHappensMorningLaughingForeverTakenImagineDadKissingMarriedWake UpMy DadCirclesWhole WorldRecklessSpinningByeGood ByeLike HerPicture TakenSpinning Around Author:Elizabeth Scott
“Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.” PeopleKnowsMeanEnoughUseRealizingPersonalitySmartUglyCute Book:Perfect You Source: Perfect You
“This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.” KnowsMeanTogetherPastSimpleLettersCrackedRubbishGloss Book:The Unwritten Rule Source: The Unwritten Rule
“There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.” PeopleKnowsMeanSchoolGirlMillionsOne ThingHigh SchoolRuinsEach DayBeing A GirlUnwritten Rules Book:The Unwritten Rule Source: The Unwritten Rule
“I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.” WorldMeanLittlesRealDoneWantedSchoolWaitingRealizingGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolTeenagerReal Ones Author:Elizabeth Scott
“love is...you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.” IfsWantMeanPersonsSometimesWould BeHateStuffLove IsEasierConfused Book:The Unwritten Rule Source: The Unwritten Rule
“School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around tons of idiots or mean people. Now that I think about it, it's worse than having a job. At least there you get paid.” PeopleThinkingMeanShowsSchoolJobsPaidIdiotMean People Book:Bloom Source: Bloom
“That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.” ThinkingMeanLittlesKidsAsksYeahAsk MeCuteLittle Kid Author:Elizabeth Scott
