“I love the me I am with him. I’m the girl who has Dave. I’m Lauren, Dave’s girlfriend. I’m someone better than Lauren Smith, who no one noticed till Dave came along. The thing is, that girl isn’t me and I know it. But when I’m with him, I feel like I could be her. That if something in me was just–I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsLittlesWould BeGirlPerfectGirlfriendThink Of MeThat GirlDaveLauren Author:Elizabeth Scott
“I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLittlesWould BePerfectThink Of MeDave Book:Bloom Source: Bloom
“The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.” WorldWayDoeHas BeensWishSunTomorrowCould Have Been Book:Something, Maybe Source: Something, Maybe
“I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.” WorldWayBookMomentsStoriesInteresting Book:Bloom Source: Bloom
“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
“Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that's burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You're really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you're never going to reply. You're never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you.” WayWritingHeartEndsMatterStoriesLastsNightWishGoneMy HeartMy FriendsLettersBurnedLast WordsHappy EndingsByeGood ByeJuliaSaying Good Bye Author:Elizabeth Scott
“There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.” PeopleKnowsWayEndsDiesSickSmokingShakesGood WayTubes Book:Between Here and Forever Source: Between Here and Forever
“Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.” WayWellsSometimes Author:Elizabeth Scott
“He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that’s a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.” KnowsWayWellsLooksLittlesFeelingsCan DoHurtKnow HowThousandTrappedHelplessIt HurtsFurious Book:Between Here and Forever Source: Between Here and Forever
