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(Don't You) Forget About Me QUOTES

(Don't You) Forget About Me QUOTES

1 " Since you've been gone, Piper, I've become as bad with the sighing as Mom. Sometimes it's the part of a sob that I jsut can't hold back. Sometimes the sigh's more like blowing out birthday candles to make a wish. And sometimes I do it hoping that it'll make you appear—even for just one instant—to laugh at me and tell me to stop. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

2 " Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

3 " Everyone falls eventually,” Piper told me. “You think it’ll hurt. But it’s falling with no bottom. You just keep going and going forever, just falling deeper and deeper. And once you stop being scared, it’s kind of fun. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

4 " People will tell you that this is just the way things go around here when someone is taken with the madness. Sometimes that means losing the May Queen and her convertible too. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

5 " The thing is, secrets are awful in lots of ways, but they almost never lie. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

6 " I found a quote from some guy that summed up the lucky thing pretty perfectly for me. It went like this: “Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

7 " Sometimes you make bad choices to keep yourself from making other, even worse ones. Or at least that’s what I tell myself. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

8 " One after another, like dominoes set up and knocked back down, they climbed on top of the bridge railing, balanced, and jumped.
No, they didn’t jump. Jump implies an understanding of gravity and a knowledge that up is only temporary. With spring-loaded legs and arms outstretched like Superman, those young men and women didn’t jump. They launched. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

9 " I want certainties, not endless indefinites. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

10 " Remember me. But do it the right way. Remember it all. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I’d rather be forgotten than remembered the wrong way. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

11 " Secrets are stupid things. They hate being contained and like nothing better than to be told everywhere and to everyone, even though this is what kills them, downgrading them to plain old common knowledge. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

12 " People’s thoughts tend to trail behind them, a stream of consciousness flowing like a river. Or a drippy faucet. It depends on the person. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

13 " Your words sounded like the worst kind of secret, the story that I wished wasn’t true. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

14 " I can’t forget you, Piper. But sometimes, I can’t really remember you either. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

15 " It’s better not to think of those things. Not to remember who we’d been-or worse, who we’ve become. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

16 " It’s better not to think of those things. Not to remember who ed been, or worse- who we’ve become. "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me

17 " Is it worth having something good when it’s just gonna be taken away? When it’s only temporary and later you’re left wondering if you imagined it anyway? "

― Kate Karyus Quinn , (Don't You) Forget About Me