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81 " Yes, the world is broken. Yes, our leaders are often corrupt and it is difficult to trust them. Yes, we struggle to make ends meet while a few of the world’s richest men hoard enough wealth to house and feed all the starving people of the world. Bullies still seem to run things. The earth is getting sicker and sicker. This world is a hard, hard place to live. Yes to all these things.” She pauses just long enough for everyone to breathe. “But I want you to ask yourselves, is this broken world of ours worth saving? "
― Amy Reed , The Nowhere Girls
82 " Your memories of me are part trees and part ocean and part magic, and I don't know if I will ever be that girl again. She was the best version of me. "
― Amy Reed , Crazy
83 " Teen angst is so boring, isn't it? I try so hard not to be a cliche, but it's like written in my DNA to hate my parents and be totally unsatisfied with everything. I wonder if there's anyone our age who actually likes their life. "
84 " How is feeling like a failure supposed to help me? The way I see it, they should invent some pill that just makes you forget whatever you want, some pill that makes you numb and functional. "
― Amy Reed , Clean
85 " I used to think I was that girl you remember. And maybe I was, maybe those memories are real, maybe that girl who looked like me really was an angel. But maybe angels fall, maybe the wind blows and just like that they can be twisted into something unrecognizable. "
86 " Our church tells us to save ourselves until marriage,” Trista says. “But you know what’s weird? It’s really just the girls who are considered damaged if they have sex, not the guys. "
87 " What Erin wants to do with pain is fix it, make it go away, and sometimes that's not what other people want. "
88 " I feel myself floating without the weight of him on my body. "
― Amy Reed , Beautiful
89 " Smoke is not chasing me and making my eyes sweat. My eyes are not burning. I am not crying. I am not standing behind my mother and she is not facing the wall and she is not saying, 'Smoke follows beauty.' Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty. Smoke follows beauty. "
90 " If you’re already nothing, you have nothing to lose. "
91 " You can always cram the wrong piece into the puzzle hole if you push hard enough and limit your definition of ‘fitting. "
92 " And what they're doing could be called kissing but it's more like sword fighting with tongues. "
93 " Everybody has fucked-up families, even normal kids, even the ones who aren’t in here. There’s no magic math equation that makes us addicts, nothing that separates us from everyone else. "
94 " There wasn’t any proof,” he says, his voice rising defensively. “That’s what everyone said. They said that girl was lying.” “That girl has a name.” Grace tries to kill him with her eyes. When nothing happens, she turns around and storms away. “Wait, Grace,” he says. She stops walking but keeps her back to him. “You don’t understand. You weren’t here. Everything was crazy after Lucy said all that stuff. Everyone at school, the whole town was, like, falling apart.” “Yeah?” she says. “The town was falling apart?” She turns her head and looks him in the eyes. “How do you think she felt? "
95 " I figure it's better to make a decision and do something rather than just sitting around thinking about it forever. Then at least I'll be moving. "
― Amy Reed , Invincible (Invincible, #1)
96 " Is this what nice is? Letting people think things that aren't true just to avoid hurting their feelings? Being nice is dishonest. "
97 " He just looks like a guy, the boy next door, someone who could even be handsome if his eyes weren’t so sunken, if his skin wasn’t so greasy, if he were wearing something besides a gas station uniform and a scowl on his face. Nothing about him says “rapist.” Nothing about him is particularly intimidating. There’s no clue to stay away from him besides his crappy job and unfortunate haircut. There’s nothing about him that screams evil. Someone like him could be anyone. "
98 " Total silence would be better. Total silence I could get used to. "
99 " There are voices you can silence. "
100 " Rape is not about sex. It is about power and violence and control. "