22 quotes found
“You don't have to go away to know where your home is.”
“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'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”
“It was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire.”
“Its not about the destination. Its getting there thats the good part.- Leonard”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them...But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing t...”
“It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.”
“And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.”
“You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.”
“...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness t...”
“And sometimes," she added, in a slightly hushed tone, like she was letting me in on a secret, "if you don't feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won't be ...”
“I know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.”
“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria ...”
