33 quotes found
“It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.”
“Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”
“My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.”
“But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me.”
“I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.”
“There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.”
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldnt have. Maybe theres a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibi...”
“I used to think maybe I wanted to become a falconer, and now I'm sure of it, because I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flyin...”
“You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.”
“I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would be a pale little girl with hair the color of fall leaves and a dress a...”
“You know, Junie, you're fourteen now. I think you can certainly manage to put together a sandwich. ...The thing is, if my mother had any idea what I had in my backpack, she would have made me that ...”
“That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--”
“It's the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven't done everything they want to do. They think they haven't had enough time. They feel they've been shortchanged.”
“I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now.”
“When people mentioned it to me, they thought they were talking about some casual relative of mine. For most people that's what an uncle was. They had no idea how I felt about Finn. No idea that hea...”
“If you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep one hand against the cold stone wall of the church, you can pretend you're in the Middle Ages. That...”
“theres just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe youre special, even though you know youre not.”
“The day my mother gave us the keys, she also made me and Greta sign a form so that the bank knew our signatures. To get in we had to show our key and sign something so they would know it was really...”
“People didnt know everything then. There were things people had never seen before. Places nobody had ever been. You could make up a story and people would believe it...also maybe it seems like it w...”
“I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.”
“...I felt the wall between the world of secrets and the real world start to collapse. I felt the girls from the portrait becoming us and us becoming them...”
“I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other. I dream about people who would only ever kiss you on the cheek.”
