37 quotes found
“It's rally bad when dads cry.”
“The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia.”
“Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.”
“Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.”
“I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.”
“I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him.”
“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”
“Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much ...”
“Anna," he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.”
“It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect.”
“Sorry. Im surprised and glad she doesnt recognize it. I run my thumb back and forth over a crusty bit on the shoulder strap as a five-second version of the cake fight flashes behind my eyes like a ...”
“Happy birthday, he whispered, his breath landing warm and suddenly close to my lips, making my insides flip. And just as quickly as hed surprised me with the cake, he kissed me, one frosting-covere...”
“I follow the path weve taken so many times this summer across the front, down the street, cut back through a neighbors yard, down the stairs to the beach, past the pier, through the campfire labyr...”
“So just over a year ago, there was this guy. I really liked him. I mean really since I was a kid. Did Frankie know him? The three of us were best friends. We basically grew up together. Complicate...”
“And in this moment of pale dawn in the hours before we leave California, I finally realize what has been the hardest thing for me about Matts death. It isnt that I lost a brother, like Frankie, or ...”
“Right after Matt died, I was afraid to do basically everything. I couldnt even bite my nails or sniff my shirt to see if I needed deodorant without feeling like he was watching me. I willed and pra...”
“The guilt of not telling Frankie about Matt and me is overwhelming, but it's a pale second to the violation I feel that she read my most private, raw thoughts and destroyed them. She broke into my ...”
“Dear Matt, In less than a day, I ll be standing on the same sand you stood on so many times before. Well, not the same sand, with the tides and winds and erosion and all of that, but the same symbo...”
“Hey. What did you do to your - I mean, you look different." My cheeks go immediately hot. Not that your average onlooker can tell, given all the makeup I'm wearing. "Frankie and I were just messing...”
“I closed my eyes under the fluroescent lights and tried to make another birthday wish, a onetime do-over, a rebate, a trade-in on the kitchen sink kiss that started everything, offered up for just ...”
“Dear Matt, We finally made it to California, and its just like you told me. I feel you here with us I think Frankie does, too. How dare you write about me in here! How dare you write to my brother...”
