Ugly Words
Colby Bettley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Without my dad around, I felt so alone and wondered when I would start to feel loved again. I had hoped and prayed so hard for a miracle to bring him back to me, to fix my life, to make things go back to how they used to be. And when that didn’t happen, it broke my heart, and I learned that miracles didn’t exist. I had felt alone ever since.”
“The pain grounded me. I rocked myself, allowing my mind to regain the smallest ounce of control. The stinging didn’t come close to the agony of everything else I felt, but it came almost as a welcome relief.”
“She slipped her arm through mine as we walked through the school gates. “I’ll always have your back, Emmie.”
“Pain erupted from every part of me, and I screamed at the top of my lungs, rage and grief and loathing laced in every decibel.”
“If only sleep came as easy to me as hating myself did.”
“I finally looked at my reflection in the mirror. I tilted my head to the side and stared at myself. It was a bizarre feeling to not quite recognise my own reflection, but recently I hardly recognised anything about myself. It’s why I had gone to the salon the previous day. I wanted the mirror to reflect what I saw. Someone haunted by darkness and struggling to fit in with the world.”
“I dressed myself as quickly as possible, noticing a few new stretch marks on my waist. My fingertips traced the zig-zag lines and my stomach twisted in knots.”
“I couldn’t fathom why I couldn’t process things like other people, instead I had to hurt myself just to get through the day.”
“His lips pulled in a devious smirk before he spun me around and pushed me gently against the wall. I huffed out a breath as he put his hands on either side of my head, leaning his face down to mine. He was looking at me like I was prey, and I felt my pulse quicken at the proximity of his lips to mine. I bit my lip and looked at him with a matched hunger.”
“Being seventeen in a modern world was tough enough without the introduction of so many different social media platforms. I often wished I had been born in a time before technology was such a devastatingly huge part of our everyday lives. I didn’t totally hate it—what teenager really wanted to live without their phone, after all—but every time I opened an app, I was reminded of just how much I didn’t fit in with the rest of the world. The false hair; faces caked in makeup; photos edited with ten different filters — everyone looked the same, and I didn’t look anything like them. I didn’t like drinking, partying or social gatherings; I was boring in their eyes and, if I was honest, in my own eyes too. It was cruel, really, for people to be subjected to such falseness.”
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Book Keywords:
bffs, bereavement, friendship, stretch-marks, mental-illness, grief-and-loss, grief, loss, emmie-and-kate, first-love, mental-health, benji-and-emmie, self-harm, self-image
