Count On Me Quotes

“The sad reality is, it's not just the people I go to school with that are doing it. It's their parents too. Their noses are all turned up at me, like because of my diagnosis; I'm an alien to them. I'm not like their son or daughter so that means I'm not worthy of respect.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“Madly is the way I love you. Forever is how long it will be.”
― Melyssa Winchester, All My Heart

“She leans over the desk to write and even though I feel bad for doing it, I watch her body as she does. Her shirt lifts just a little as she’s bending over and whether she’s aware of it or not, her lower back is exposed. I’ve spent the last eight years ignoring this girl, but one small view of her back and it’s putting my body into overdrive.

I’ve never wanted to kiss someone there so much in my life.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“We’re all a little weird, Isabelle. It’s our differences that make us unique and you shouldn’t let anyone, even a boy you might like, tell you anything different.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“She's not like other girls because she's different. I want her kind of different.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myself, but I really wish she could know. It's like when she does it, it's all I can see and I want more of it. Especially after the day we've had. I always want her making happy faces.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“If Isabelle Reagan can take a guy like me and turn him into someone worthy of respect then it's mind blowing to think what she can do for the rest of the world. What we could do for it together. We might be able to change it.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“Stupid people. Their faces are gonna get stuck that way.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“This time, whatever you’re gonna do, make sure it’s for keeps. You might be able to threaten those guys into leaving us alone, but you won’t bully me. If you hurt her, I’ll hurt you.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“I guess that's what happens when you've lost everything that had any real meaning. You become numb to what's left.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“You might look like a princess, Isabelle Reagan, but if I had my way tonight, you’d also be a queen.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“A strange fact of life is that usually people who are counted out somehow transform into the action figures doing the toughest of times that people can count on.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“The first real memory I have, is one of the first times I was old enough to remember being at your house. We must have been about three, maybe four. I came and sat down beside you while you were playing and it’s like, even then, you knew I wasn’t anything special because you just ignored the hell out of me.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“Soon, John would wake up and leave her, at least for the day, to right one injustice in a world chockful of injustices. In imagining his day, Molly understood what she was going to do for the rest of her life. The world was so wrong, so disastrously cruel, and in so many ways, it became clear to her that she would try to right it somehow, even in the minuscule measure that a single human being could influence. . . . She even had a partner in crime, a man whose wonderful mysteries she would also need a lifetime to unravel, and she was so looking forward to this task.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“Don’t count your friends — count on them.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“At some point we all have to grow up. Sure, high school might be the best years of our lives the way people say, but when that's over what are we gonna have? An old football career if we don't play college ball and a whole lot of broken people on our conscience. I don't want that.
Maybe there's hope for me after all.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“Trust GOD with the life He gave you; follow His lead.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim