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Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you:-Is that all you’re going to do all day, sit in front of the computer?-When I was your age I had two jobs.-Why don’t you wear some clothes that fir for a change?-Turn it down. I can hear it all the way over here.-You’re not eating that for dinner.-Did you do your homework?-Stop mumbling and speak up.-Now what did you do?-Because I said so.-No.
— Charles Benoit, You
The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you’re smarter than they are. You’re not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.
— Charles Benoit, You
The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that they can ask you one hundred multiple-choice questions to get it all back out of you again.
— Charles Benoit, You
… and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she’s gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
I peeked in the bag. Do you know what was in there? I’ll tell you what was in there: a collapsible tray table. Is there any sadder purchase in this fucking world? Maybe a CD of C+C Music Factory’s Greatest Hits, but that’s about it.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
we’re too old to be young.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and you’re blasphemous because all you want is You
— Caroline Kepnes, You
But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].
— Caroline Kepnes, You
When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you’re with your friends it’s like every fifth word. Why couldn’t learning Spanish be that easy?
— Charles Benoit, You
And [Benji] cheats on you, Beck. A lot. Compulsively. He is in intense pursuit of a performance artist who fucks with his head the way he fucks with yours.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
It was an unfamiliar feeling, waking up with a place to go, a place I was actually beginning to comprehend and face without a sense of terror.More than that, I was even questioning the assumption that I was, in my bones, a scared and anxious and miserable person. It felt like the days were almost supernaturally good, that I could wake up without the usual wave of terror, that the days were admixed with some foreign substance dripping into them, some animating essence, like the dragonborn races of Endoria, dragonborn days. I felt like I’d stumbled on one of the open secrets of the world. Why hadn’t I realized before that being a grown-up could be anything you wanted it to be?
— Austin Grossman, You
You’re surprised at all the blood.He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.He’s surprised, too.
— Charles Benoit, You
In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
… and you start telling a story about accidentally stealing shoes from an outlet and we’ve been on the steps for almost twenty minutes and you’re so nervous and excited that you keep talking about shoes as if you have to keep talking about shoes or you might jump me right here, on the steps. I chose this spot because my whole fucking life I’ve walked by these steps and seen couples that make me feel alone, rejected. And now there are loners passing by you and me, jealous, and you’re still talking and fuck, it’s hard to listen when I can smell your body wash.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn’t be a part of. She didn’t know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.
— Austin Grossman, You
ThinkWhen did it go wrong?The break-in?No, before that.The party?That was part of it, but that wasn’t when it started.Zack?Of course, yeah, it would be easy to say it was Zack. But that’s not it, is it?Before Zack.Before Ryan. Before Max and Derrick or that whole thing with the wallet.Before Ashley.Before tenth grade even began.And you’re thinking, this can’t be it.
— Charles Benoit, You
If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
There’s always a but. It’s a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said is erased, turned meaningless, just like that.
— Charles Benoit, You
It’s amazing how good fifty and sunny feels after you’ve been bleeding in twelve with a windchill of go fuck yourself.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
Some days I spent up to three hours in the arcade after school, dimly aware that we were the first people, ever, to be doing these things. We were feeling something they never had – a physical link into the world of the fictional – through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real. We’d fashioned an outpost in the hostile, inaccessible world of the imagination, like dangling a bathysphere into the crushing dark of the deep ocean, a realm hitherto inaccessible to humankind. This is what games had become. Computers had their origin in military cryptography – in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression. We’d done that, taken that idea and turned it into a thing its creators never imagined, our own incandescent mythology.
— Austin Grossman, You
I don’t feel sorry for myself, Beck. Lots of people have shitty parents and roaches in the cabinets and stale, raw Pop-Tarts for dinner and a TV that barely works and a dad who doesn’t care when his son doesn’t come home during a national disaster. The thing is, I’m lucky. I had the bookstore.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).
— Caroline Kepnes, You
The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird can’t fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
… as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to ‘metal objects designed to cause harm’.
— Austin Grossman, You
What a shame to be so angered by what you don’t have that you treat what you do have like it’s nothing.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
Math. It’s your favorite subject. Which surprises you. Last year your teacher tried to convince you that you had a real “aptitude” for math, but all you got in the end was a B minus. The truth is you weren’t even trying. But then you got low Cs and Ds in all your other classes and you weren’t trying there, either, so maybe you are good at math after all. You like it because either you’re right or you’re wrong. Not like social studies and definitely not like English, where you always have to explain your answers and support your opinions. With math it’s right or it’s wrong and you’re done with it. But even that’s changing, my teacher said now you have to explain how you solved the problem and support your answer, saying that having the right answer isn’t as important as explaining how you got it and bam, just like that, you hate math.
— Charles Benoit, You
The problem with books is that they end.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
I’m the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
It’s raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?
— Austin Grossman, You
Another teen friendship, another tiny mysterious universe.
— Austin Grossman, You
Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.
— Austin Grossman, You
And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
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