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41 " Turning myself into the idea of a girl. Or, an idea of an idea. A manic pixie dream, I guess. The kind everyone says they're tired of, but I don't know that they really mean it. The girl nobody ends up loving long or loving well, but nobody wants to give up, either. "
― Courtney Summers , Sadie
42 " My eyes are wide and wild and I can't see beyond them. I can only see what they've seen. "
43 " How cruel is it that the only person I can muster the steadiness of my own voice for is the one who will be least reassured by it. "
44 " I’m only fluent when I’m alone. "
45 " Who doesn’t want a love story? "
46 " Girls go missing all the time. Restless teenage girls, reckless teenage girls. Teenage girls and their inevitable drama. Sadie had survived a terrible loss, and with very little effort on my part, I dismissed it. Her. I wanted a story that felt fresh, new and exciting and what about a missing teenage girl was that?We’ve heard this story before. "
47 " Eighteen years old, but the kind of eighteen they write about in books. The kind of eighteen that lives faster than the speed of hurt. A girl who has no reason at all to believe she isn't permanent. "
48 " we’re no better or worse than the people we walk amongst. "
49 " Sometimes I don't know what I miss more: everything I've lost or everything I never had. "
50 " I’m going to kill a man. I’m going to steal the light from his eyes. I want to watch it go out. You aren’t supposed to answer violence with more violence but sometimes I think violence is the only answer. It’s no less than he did to Mattie, so it’s no less than "
51 " I want to live my life on the internet. Everything is perfect there. "
52 " I realized pretty early on that the who didn’t really matter so much. That anybody who listens to me, I end up loving them just a little "
53 " I realized pretty early on that the who didn't really matter so much. That anybody who listens to me, I end up loving them just a little. "
54 " How do you forgive the people who are supposed to protect you? Sometimes I don’t know what I miss more: everything I’ve lost or everything I never had. "
55 " WEST MCCRAY: You thought you could make it right with Sadie? CLAIRE SOUTHERN: I doubt I could have. It’s just a comfort, having the option. "
56 " And the whole time they're doing this, my sister is dead. "
57 " I'm going to kill a man.I'm going to steal the light from his eyes. I want to watch it go out. You aren't supposed to answer violence with more violence but sometimes I think violence is the only answer. It’s no less than he did to Mattie, so it's no less than he deserves. "
58 " Jäger' he says and I know I'll never be able to drink Jäger again. It will remind me of this moment, of her, of joking on my own grief in front of a boy whose name I knew before he knew mine. "
59 " A girl who bulldozes a person by being ten times herself in front of them. "
60 " And it begins, as so many stories do, with a dead girl. "