Shirley Marr Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Shirley Marr
I walked up to the window, raised my palm and pressed it against the pane. It left a bloodied handprint. Through the red shape - my red flag, my riot sign - I could see Neil staring at me. — Shirley Marr
So it is just you and your friends then."
"Yes. Is that so hard to believe?" Is it because we're girls? I want to say. You think a bunch of girls are not capable of something like this? — Shirley Marr
You're so mean,' I said. 'You're like one of those people who upload pictures of themselves where they look really hot and the other person looks like shit. — Shirley Marr
I swapped my heart for a bargaining chip a long time ago. And here I am turning it over and over again in my hand, not sure what to trade it in for. — Shirley Marr
Brian, maybe you are right after all. It was a plan. It had a beginning, middle and an end. We knew what we wanted to do, what we were going to do, and how to do it. We never meant for it to turn out this way, but you're right. It was a plan. We got up off the floor and for the first time in two weeks, and we put our school uniforms on. — Shirley Marr
I grabbed Lexi's tousled head and kissed her hair. She smelt like John-Paul Gaultier and blood. — Shirley Marr
There is no ending to this story because, as I've realised, stories don't have endings, only beginnings. — Shirley Marr
I want to grow up and do something cool with my life, such as build an orphanage in a third world country like all those saintly Hollywood celebrities. That or, like, cause a scandal and become mega-famous. — Shirley Marr
I was thinking that if it really was my fault, if every reaction could be traced to an action before, then at the very beginning would be me at the canteen queue with my twenty-dollar note instead of my packed lunch. In turn I could blame my mother for not caring enough and maybe I could blame my father for making my mum stop caring. Maybe all this was supposed to happen. It had been happening all along. It was too hard to try and stop it now. In a twisted way, there was cold comfort in that. — Shirley Marr
You don't give your mum enough credit for raising you, Elle. Look at you. Teenage sweetheart with a sugar shell and strychnine centre. We might as well finish speaking the truth now. — Shirley Marr
If you're hoping to party like it's 1999 because Prince told you the world was going to end in 2000, then I'm sorry to disappoint you. We're still here. — Shirley Marr
Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him. — Shirley Marr
My uniform felt like a costume. I put on a fresh coat of black nail polish. I twisted up a tube of Revlon Red and put my war paint on. I sharpened the tips of my Fierce Words so they were like a row of shiny arrows. — Shirley Marr
Neil said to me once that in times of desperation, you have to force yourself to make a decision.
It's your choice, he said. Us or them. So choose. — Shirley Marr