Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.

—Courtney Summers in Some Girls Are

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About Courtney Summers

Courtney Summers (born 1986 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer of young adult fiction. Her most famous known works are Cracked Up to Be (2008), This Is Not a Test (2012) and All the Rage (2015).

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The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

—Courtney Summers in Cracked Up to Be

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

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I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

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Sometimes fifteen minutes is all it takes for your entire life to change.

—Bella Andre in It Must Be Your Love

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