48 quotes found
“In a well-ordered universe...”
“You don't have to go away to know where your home is.”
“In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors.”
“You + Mesaw this...AMERICAThank you for finding America with me”
“Roger, he has a chain saw," I hissed. "I am not going to die in Kentucky!”
“I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.”
“Daddy," I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. "I love you."Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. "I knew that," he murmured. "Always kn...”
“I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”
“All the stuff you cant wait to get away from, until its not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.”
“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.”
“And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.”
“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.And real friends never have to tell you that theyre your friends.”
“When you move as much as I have...you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn't work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship used to be like, w...”
“As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a ti...”
“What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?”
“I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for my real night to beginmy tim...”
“It's always a risk. Wherever there is great emotion. because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.”
“Tomorrow will be better.But what if its not? I asked.Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”
“I knew in that moment that things would be forever different- that today was gong to be the day that split my life into before and after.”
“He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. "You look hot.""What? Me?" I stammered, completely flummoxed."Yeah," he said, still looking at me."Oh. Um, thank you. I mean, not that y...”
“All I could determine was that it must have been a nice thing to see if it was a house you were thinking about moving into. But not so nice if it was the house you were moving out from. I could pra...”
“It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.”
“I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.”
