Numbers Quotes

“You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“Nothing makes any sense. Nothing means anything. You're born, you live, you die. That's it.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“I was tired of being me.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We all have to deal with it. Most people that you talk to have lost someone, but nobody talks about it.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“My best day ever. Got up. Had breakfast. Came to school. Bored, as usual. Wishing I wasn't there, like usual. Kids ignoring me, suits me fine. Sitting with the other retards—we’re so special. Wasting my time. Yesterday was the same, and it's gone, anyway. Tomorrow may never come. There is only today. This is the best day and the worst day. Actually it's crap.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“You're mental. I always knew you were.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“Do you know what it's like to hear those words? To hear the person you love telling you they love you, too? If you don't now, I hope you do one day.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“If you’ve found someone who loves you – that’s the most important thing of all. If you’ve got that, then you should appreciate every damn second with them.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“We know it, but chose forget it. Is too much hard to bear. Yesterday, you made me realize that: we chose forget.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“Todos sabemos que todo tendrá fin algún día, pero no podemos dejar que eso nos frene. No debemos dejar que nos impida vivir.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“Sometimes, when things are confusing, we try and make sense of it our own way; we find ways of coping up.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“ " But we are starting again, Jem. If I hadn't met you, it probably would have been dope and pills and smoking crack and shooting up junk. Prison. Hospitalization. That's how it would have been for me, but you saved me from that. It's going to be different for us now." ”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“Spider?” I’d said, with a question mark in my voice.
“Yeah.”
“You know at school . . . what did you do that for? Wade in like that?”
Spider frowned. “He was disrespectful, Jem. What you said—I could tell it was real. It was what you were really feeling. He had no right to make a joke of it.”
“Yeah, I know, he’s a tosser, but it’s nothing to do with you. You made a right show of yourself. You made a show of me.”
“I didn’t want him to get away with it.”
“Yeah, but I don’t need a knight in shining armor. I can look after myself.” He was smiling a bit now. I paused. “It’s not funny, man. It’s made everything worse,” I said quietly. “I’ve got comments all the time now, ‘bout you and me. Sly comments.”
He looked away, studied his hands. The knuckles on the right one were nearly healed up now.
My mouth had gone dry, but I had to get this clear with him. “You do know there’s no ‘you and me,’ don’t you, Spider?”
He looked up. “What?”
“We’re not like . . . together. Just mates.”
There was something about his sullenness when he said, “Yeah, ‘course. Just mates. Mates is good,” that made me think he felt the exact opposite. I was churning inside, cursing that day under the bridge. People were so bloody difficult. Why had I ever got involved?
He stood up, came toward me, putting an arm out. I thought, Shit, he’s going to hug me. Hasn’t he listened to anything? But his hand formed a fist, and he lightly punched my arm. “Listen, man, I know what you’re like. I’ve told you I’ll never say nothing nice to you. And now you’ve put my straight, I’ll never do nothing nice for you, either. OK? If someone disrespects you, I’ll let them. If you’re being mugged on the street, I’ll walk on by. If I see you on fire, I won’t even piss on you. OK?”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“ "Are you awake?" I whispered, my voice nearly disappearing in the darkness of the huge barn.
"Yeah."
"I'm freezing."
"I know. Me, too" A pause. A long, long pause. "Come here, then." ”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“ I reached up and cupped the back of his neck and drew him down to me, and we kissed again. ”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“Bloody Mike Tyson'd have trouble with you.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“No se puede escapar a la muerte: al final siempre te alcanza.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“This was me, the real me, and Spider was the only person ever to have found me, to see me for who I was. And I saw him too.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers

“ Lovers, yes, we're lovers now.”
― Rachel Ward, Numbers