Elizabeth Scott Quotes & Sayings

I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?"
"My ladder's at home. — Elizabeth Scott

My father looked like he was having a stroke - not
that Mel seemed to notice because he just kept talking.
"Patrick needs a ride. No car, you know, and so I figured,
hey, I can pick up some gas money." He laughed. No one
else did, and now Patrick looked like he was trying to
push himself inside the door and hide. — Elizabeth Scott

There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do. — Elizabeth Scott

Because when I first saw you I thought-no, I knew-you were special. Because I still think that every time I look at you. Because I think you're smart and funny and brave. But most of all," he grins at me- "because I like questions. — Elizabeth Scott

I'll always remember taking your hand and telling you that everything would be okay. — Elizabeth Scott

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces. — Elizabeth Scott

You can plan all you want, but you will never know what will be. Life just is, and I am here in it. I am waiting for what comes next. — Elizabeth Scott

She did the "we have mysterious hand gestures that make us giggle" thing. — Elizabeth Scott

Sometimes being me is very confusing. — Elizabeth Scott

I told you we were meant to be, he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now
Well, now I kiss him. — Elizabeth Scott

I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you. — Elizabeth Scott

Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or something.
"Try not to look so surprised," Finn says. "I read. I can count to ten. Sometimes I can even spell my own name. — Elizabeth Scott

The thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are — Elizabeth Scott

Do you really think he was flirting with me?"
"Let's see. He gave you candy you hate - I saw your face - and a CD of songs ... " He looks at the CD. "All of these are, like, twenty years old at least. Figures. Oh, and he groped your face. Sounds like true love to me. — Elizabeth Scott

The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren't mine, that won't ever be mine. It's all I've ever known.
I wish it wasn't. — Elizabeth Scott

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster. — Elizabeth Scott

The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating — Elizabeth Scott

Vitamins ruined my life.
Not that there was much left to ruin, but still.
I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible life sounds strange. After all, vitamins are supposed to keep people healthy. Also, they're inanimate objects. But thanks to them I was stuck in the Jackson Center Mall watching my father run around in a bee costume. — Elizabeth Scott

And you ... do you know what you are?"
"Stupid?"
"Beautiful," he says, his face turning red. — Elizabeth Scott

I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind. — Elizabeth Scott

I always thought of grief as a blow that took everything out of you. And it is like that. But it stays, past that first hard hit. It stays and blows its breath into you.
It's always there, reminding you of what you've lost. What's gone. — Elizabeth Scott

Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating. — Elizabeth Scott

I'm broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am. — Elizabeth Scott

A family is more than one Person. — Elizabeth Scott

Things ... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is. — Elizabeth Scott

Love is ... you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do. — Elizabeth Scott

Everyone else carries a backpack, but not Josh. He has a cool, beat-up messenger bag, covered with stickers protesting all kinds of things. — Elizabeth Scott

I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare. — Elizabeth Scott

Just once, I wanted to lose something without the whole world watching. — Elizabeth Scott

...sometimes, you have to break your own heart. — Elizabeth Scott

Working to my potential.' It's like every teacher I have has some sort of manual to use when talking to me. She finished with, 'You have so much going for you,' which was the dumbest thing anyone, even Laurie, has ever said to me. — Elizabeth Scott

Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. — Elizabeth Scott

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace
grace you can reach for. — Elizabeth Scott

No, it can't," I say. "It's - it's the kind of thing you want to say, that you want to believe, but it isn't - I know isn't true. I thought my heart knew things, but what I thought was real turned out to be a lie, and now I don't - — Elizabeth Scott

I knew from Brianna that being beautiful wasn't all great. Brianna had changed in middle school. One day we were both seventh graders and the next, she was a supermodel who had a seventh grader for a best friend. — Elizabeth Scott

I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did. — Elizabeth Scott

But I know a lie when I hear one. — Elizabeth Scott

Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me.
I looked at it. "A. GUY."
He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry. — Elizabeth Scott

All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along and fix things. — Elizabeth Scott

It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, This is who you are. This is what you are. — Elizabeth Scott

I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt. — Elizabeth Scott

You know who you are you just have to believe it. — Elizabeth Scott

I will always carry Mom in my heart. I will always miss her. I will always wish she was here. — Elizabeth Scott

He kisses me and for that kiss, for that moment, I forget how worried I am. It comes back, of course, but with Caleb, I feel more whole - I am more whole - than I have been since Mom died.
I love him.
I love him because of who he is, who he really is past what everyone else sees; the lost boy, the druggie, the car thief. I love him because he is strong and caring. I love him because he broke and put himself back together again. I love him because he is beautiful inside and out.
I love him for being here with me. I love him for not telling me that everything will be all right. I love him because he knows what life is like, what it can do, and is always honest about it. — Elizabeth Scott

Then I heard someone laugh.
I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them. — Elizabeth Scott

I will always know what life can take, but I am ready to see what it can give. — Elizabeth Scott

It's like I'm living inside a mirror. I see things, I do things, but they are just surfaces and nothing more. — Elizabeth Scott

Josh pulls me aside.
"Hey, About before, I just ... I wanted to say ... well, I think you're pretty special." He says, kind of stumbling over the words a little. Like he's hesitant to say them, now i wish he'd hug me again. And then kiss me.
But he doesn't. He just waves and walks off.
I sigh.
"Hannah, I just ... I want you to know if I pause alot when I tell you how special you are I want you to think that I'm ... very ... very ... deep," Finn says — Elizabeth Scott

You're right ... you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can — Elizabeth Scott

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath. — Elizabeth Scott

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything? — Elizabeth Scott

It's torture, not being able to talk to him!! She's been so, so worried. How she hopes he's finally doing better now and sleeping soundly. — Elizabeth Scott

I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world. — Elizabeth Scott

I know I should say he suddenly seemed vulnerable and I felt a connection to his soul or whatever, but the truth is I just wanted to tackle him and then make out for the next three thousand years. — Elizabeth Scott

Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real. — Elizabeth Scott

I want to care, but I don't.
I look at you and all I feel is tired. — Elizabeth Scott

I lied to Julia, I didn't know what else to do because you - you make me feel ... " I had to stop. Not because I didn't have words. I did. But I was afraid to say them.
He looked at me, and I knew then I could love him. That if I let myself I would.
"You make me feel too," he said, and held out one hand. — Elizabeth Scott

I've missed you so much it's felt like missing you is all I am.
Like if someone looked inside me, there wouldn't be a skeleton and muscles and blood and nerves. There'd just be memories of you and all the things I've tried to say and ripped out of this notebook, all the things I want to say but can't because I don't have the words. — Elizabeth Scott

All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings.
This is mine. — Elizabeth Scott

She is so relieved to know that he's better and is finally getting the sleep he needs and she misses him. — Elizabeth Scott

I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue.
Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am. — Elizabeth Scott

Anger can try to break your heart, but sorrow is what will. What can. What does. — Elizabeth Scott

Maybe you and I have to learn how to live
with what we saw. With what we know. — Elizabeth Scott

I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil."
What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?"
It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?"
My mom loves it."
But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires."
What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom. — Elizabeth Scott

You,I think. I am terrified of you. Of how your kindness makes me like you in spite of myself. Of how you make me dream things I haven't dreamed in forever.
You,I think. But I don't say it. — Elizabeth Scott

I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't. — Elizabeth Scott

What had been became what
was and a story only works when you know the ending.
When the people in it don't seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her.
When you don't already know the story is a lie. — Elizabeth Scott

Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on. — Elizabeth Scott

That damn spark. — Elizabeth Scott

She's gone, but I can be happy. I can be in love. I can be both those things and scared too, and I am. I am, and this is what life is. — Elizabeth Scott

I didn't want to see it. I didn't think he'd ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn't. — Elizabeth Scott

How come you like Josh so much anyway? All he does is sit around drinking overpriced coffee and bitching about how awful things are"
"He cares about the world."
"If he cared about the world, he'd donate the ten thousand dollars he must spend on coffee every year to charity. That would be doing something. — Elizabeth Scott

But the past couple of days I've missed you so much it's felt like missing you is all I am. — Elizabeth Scott

I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die. I hate those crying dough women on TV because they are just like me, weak and broken and clinging to the hands that hold us under. — Elizabeth Scott

This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing. — Elizabeth Scott

Oh, and he groped your face. Sounds like true love to me.'
'He didn't grope my face. We were talking. And he also bought me animal crackers. I like them.'
'You also bitched about them not being in the vending machine for a week. Everyone in the building knows you like animal crackers.'
'I don't see you bringing me any.'
'Do you want me to? — Elizabeth Scott

Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say. — Elizabeth Scott

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are. — Elizabeth Scott

Everyone gets scared, like it's some big profound statement? — Elizabeth Scott

And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too. — Elizabeth Scott

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself. — Elizabeth Scott

I don't think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate. — Elizabeth Scott

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. — Elizabeth Scott

Kate, don't be like that. You know I only did so well because I yearn-see, SAT word- to follow you to college and steal your heart."
"Uh-huh. Too bad for you I don't plan on attending clown college."
He grinned. "Only you would ignore the incredibly sweet thing I just said."
"Only you would describe one of your asinine comments as incredibly sweet. — Elizabeth Scott

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word. — Elizabeth Scott

I don't eat bread.' Is she pouting? It's hard to tell. She's had a lot of chemicals injected into her face. — Elizabeth Scott

There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just
smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the
"
"Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head.
"Away from my life. — Elizabeth Scott

She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago. — Elizabeth Scott

All right, you caught me. I'm secretly obsessed with you and spend all my free time writing about you in my journal. 'Dear Diary, today Will was an ass for the 467th day in a row. He's so dreamy — Elizabeth Scott

I think love is huge, overwhelming. I think it's terrible and beautiful. — Elizabeth Scott

My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember. — Elizabeth Scott

I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to. — Elizabeth Scott

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep. — Elizabeth Scott

When someone you love ... when they die, you want it undone. You'd do anything to have them back, and it's easy to believe that if only this had happened or that had happened, everything would be fine. And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do. — Elizabeth Scott

I wants us to be real. I want to be just you and me.
- Ryan — Elizabeth Scott

Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything. — Elizabeth Scott

And now I see what has been there all along, what I've noticed but never truly understood until now.
Eli is as uncertain as I am, as we all are. Life has surprised him like it has me. Has hurt him like it has me. — Elizabeth Scott

Love-real love-can't be defined. It just is. — Elizabeth Scott

It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room. — Elizabeth Scott

Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that's burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You're really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you're never going to reply. You're never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you. — Elizabeth Scott