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Elizabeth Scott, born in 1972, is an American author known for her young adult literature. Her works delve into the emotional and psychological changes of adolescents.

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Famous Elizabeth Scott Quotes

“I see what grief does, how it strips you bare, shows you all the things you don't want to know. That loss doesn't end, that there isn't a moment where you are done, when you can neatly put it away and move on.”

Knows Want Doe Ends Done Moments Shows Moving Loss Grief Where You Are

Book:Heartbeat

Source: Heartbeat

“I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.”

Ifs Want I Can Lying Grass Benches

Book:Living Dead Girl

Source: Living Dead Girl

“You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you.”

Knows Want Giving Believe Can Do Who You Are What You Want Believe In Me True You

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.”

“the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are”

Thinking Want Used Dies Cant Wanting To Die

Book:Living Dead Girl

Source: Living Dead Girl

“I've been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn't like that at all. It is beautiful, but it's a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is- The thing is you want to. You don't care what's coming you just want who your heart beats for.”

Want Heart Kind Care Beautiful Fall Love Is Taught Terrible Beats Don't Care Ruthless Heart Beat

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her. - Ryan”

Knows Want

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“I wants us to be real. I want to be just you and me. - Ryan”

Want Real Being Real

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“I didn't want it to be one good memory that led to a lot of bad ones. I wanted it to stay what it was, one amazing moment, something that was strong and sweet enough to stand on its own. Something I could remember without any pain. - Kate”

Want Enough Moments Wanted Pain Remember Strong Memories Sweet Kate Good Memories

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“Josh pulls me aside. "Hey, About before, I just... I wanted to say ... well, I think you're pretty special." He says, kind of stumbling over the words a little. Like he's hesitant to say them, now i wish he'd hug me again. And then kiss me. But he doesn't. He just waves and walks off. I sigh. "Hannah, I just... I want you to know if I pause alot when I tell you how special you are I want you to think that I'm... very... very... deep," Finn says”

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Author:Elizabeth Scott

“This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.”

Knows Want Stills Real Havens Broken Unwritten Unwritten Rules

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. Being happy makes you want to talk, to go over everything, to share it so you can remember it all over again.”

Want Remember Talking Share Make You Happy Talking About Someone

Book:Bloom

Source: Bloom

“Because I-I'm someone who wants to kiss you. Be with you." Eli says as if it is obvious, as if I know what is written on his heart.”

Ifs Knows Want Heart Written Kissing Obvious

Book:Between Here and Forever

Source: Between Here and Forever

“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.”

Ifs Want Mean Persons Sometimes Would Be Hate Stuff Love Is Easier Confused

Book:The Unwritten Rule

Source: The Unwritten Rule

“I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.”

Thinking Knows Want Feels I Can Sometimes Know How Taste Beats Tongue Bitter

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating”

Want Heart

Book:Living Dead Girl

Source: Living Dead Girl

“So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).”

Want Trying Wells Matter Wonder No Matter What What You Want Miserable Darling Trying To Be Happy

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real.”

Knows Want Feels Looks Real Care School Walks Morning Wake Up Tired Emptiness Detachment Numbness

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can”

Want Matter

Author:Elizabeth Scott

“I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.”

Thinking Want Ends Notice Me

Book:Something, Maybe

Source: Something, Maybe

“I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.”

Want Feels Looks Care Tired

Author:Elizabeth Scott

About the Author

Born: 1972
Known for: Author
Quotes: 127

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