Cracked Up to Be
Courtney Summers
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.”
“How does it feel to know that even at my worst, you're still not good enough?”
“Imagine 4 years. Four years, two suicides, one death, one rape, two pregnancies (one abortion), three overdoses, countless drunken antics, pantsings, spilled food, theft, fights, broken limbs, turf wars–every day, a turf war–six months until graduation and no one gets a medal when they get out. But everything you do here counts. High school.”
“The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it’s a cry for help. It wasn’t.”
“I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.' 'I don't like you with Jake. He's not me.”
“Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.”
“If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.”
“I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.”
“Jake and Chris talk through art and discover they have so much in common it's amazing. Like, They Could Be Boyfriends If They Didn't Like Vaginas So Much Amazing. ”
“I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.”
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parker-fadley, high-school, ya, hope, self-destructive-behavior, sweet-talk, screwed-up, perfection, drinking, retort, mistake
