1.
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
Michelle Hodkin
2.
I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.
Michelle Hodkin
3.
I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.
Michelle Hodkin
4.
Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.
Michelle Hodkin
5.
You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself.
Michelle Hodkin
6.
If you expect the worst from people, that's exactly what you'll get.
Michelle Hodkin
7.
The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.
Michelle Hodkin
8.
The people we care about are always worth more to us than the people we don't. No matter what anyone pretends.
Michelle Hodkin
9.
Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.
Michelle Hodkin
10.
You could start a fire with the heat between you two.
You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.
Michelle Hodkin
11.
I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.
Michelle Hodkin
12.
"What would you do if I kissed you right now?" I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back."
Michelle Hodkin
13.
I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.
Michelle Hodkin
14.
I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.
Michelle Hodkin
15.
Pain is just a feeling, and feelings aren't real.
Michelle Hodkin
16.
If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.
Michelle Hodkin
17.
You can't be fixed. You can't be saved.
Michelle Hodkin
18.
I knew one hundred little things about Noah Shaw but when he kissed me I couldn't remember my own name.
Michelle Hodkin
19.
And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have.
Michelle Hodkin
20.
My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me-it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.
Michelle Hodkin
21.
But when everyone tells you you're crazy and no one believes you when you swear you aren't, a small part of you will always wonder if they're right.
Michelle Hodkin
22.
It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.
Michelle Hodkin
23.
Boys are stupid and girls are trouble.
Michelle Hodkin
24.
Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.
Michelle Hodkin
25.
Do not find peace. Find passion.
Michelle Hodkin