Julie Anne Peters Quotes

“… the man of my dreams is a girl.”

“Everything seems to be working." Except me. I'm broken.”

“Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.”

“Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.”

“I don't have to answer. Until you know the question.”

“What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.”

“What awaits you? Eternal peace. Serenity. The light on the other side. What awaits me is unknown. The only certainty is that life is an eternal hell.”

“You can't trust machines. You can't trust people.”

“Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them?”

“People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.”

“I don't have alot of people to talk to. Not alot of people are worth my time.”

“I hear you. I just don't believe a word you say.”

“I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.”

“Stop trying to save me. You couldn't then; you can't now.”

“Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look.”

“There's no reason to speak. I have nothing to say.”

“Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.”

“Don't choose me. I'm not worth your time.”

“But you'd sell your soul for it, wouldn't you? For one day of feeling beautiful.”

“I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.”

“I had to fight so hard not to cry.”

“Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.”

“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”

“I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.”

“There's always a way out. All you have to do is take it.”

“I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.”

“I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.”

“Would I cheat to save my soul?
No.
But to save my G. P. A.?
Yes.”

“I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.”

“His invitation lingers. So does my question. Why me? I don't know the answer. When I look at myself in the mirror, all I see is a starving, stunted bird who never grew wings and lost all reason to sing.”

“I'm scared. What will tomorrow bring? It has to be better than today. It has to.”

“I just want the pain to end.”

“You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.”

“She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them.”

“Who will see you through the darkness? "Me," I key in the answer. "I'll find my own way.”

“At times like this, I'm thankful I don't feel love.”

“Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.”

“The sad truth is, they should never trust me.”

“No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.”

“I wish I was invisible to him, to everyone.”

“How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.”

“But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.”

“I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.”

“Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.”

“What you see, isn't always what you get”

“Mom's eyes blazed. "Are you sleeping with her?"

Oh, god. Did we have to do this here? Now? "Well, actually," I smirked, "we don't get a lot of sleep.”

“Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.”

“I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.”

“With determination and purpose, I head into the light.”

“Because no one can be trusted.”

“The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.”

“But she never just accepted me for the way I was.”

“What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?”

“Yeah, I loved her. I couldn't help it. She was my brother.”

“How will you be remembered? As a loner and a loser.”

“Like anyone cared where I was, or who I was.”

“She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.”

“I won't be alive so I won't care who finds me.”

“Take it as a token. Because tomorrow when I go, I want you to believe friends are possible.”