The Start Of Me And You Quotes
"Our town was too big for people to know everything about you, but just small enough for them to clench down on one defining moment like teeth clamped on prey."
"The script occupied the small, secret spaces of my days, though I’d never planned to do anything with it."
"You’d think, given the diversity of the human population, that we would have come up with multiple facial expressions for sympathy. But no. There’s one: eyebrows and mouth downturned, head tilted like a curious bird."
"Just as quickly, the guilt entered my bloodstream like a toxin."
"I mourned for his life, but I also mourned, selfishly, for myself."
"The idea of us still hung in the air, but we’d never be more than a few golden memories and a bundle of what-ifs."
"I’m on my own now. I’d have to cope in the moment—not wait until my appointments."
"Sometimes pretending to be brave eventually made me feel brave."
"I could draw a path back to happiness, step by step."
"Things change. There are so many outside forces coming at marriage; finances and jobs and houses and children. You can lose each other if you’re not careful. It doesn’t mean it was all a wash."
"Joy in the face of destruction. A very admirable quality."
"Whatever you want it to mean. You and Cameron will still come over for dinner twice a week and stay with me when your mom’s out of town. We don’t have to talk about it. I won’t come over to the house at first if that will make the transition easier."
"Don’t let schooling get in the way of your education."
"Do you ever go back and reread books that you really love?"
"Romeo and Juliet manage a double suicide, Beth dies and Laurie marries Amy, Rhett leaves Scarlett …"
"The good stuff that comes before the ending is worth it."
"You have a thing for nerds, and that's fine."
"That's what I said about your father, Katie."
"Sometimes it sucks to be Tessa's best friend."
"It wasn't just her that bailed on me. It was everyone, trailing along behind Leanne like they were her royal subjects."
"I couldn’t bear to be alone, at home, in the silence."
"In friendship, we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos."
"My heart gave a surge like a confetti cannon, so loud that I was sure he must have heard it."
"Never in a million years would I have guessed that Max Watson had moves."
"It stopped being funny to me, as jokes often do when they wind up being true."
"Maybe my feelings for Max had been there the whole time, obscured by the rubble of the Ryan Chase crush that I’d somehow outgrown."
"But relationships aren’t perfect, not a single one of them, and that includes your mom and me. The difference is that I’m fighting for us this time."
"Grief is slow. It’s like wringing out a washcloth. Even after you think it’s dry, a few more drops will form."
"Love extra, even if it means you hurt extra, too. That’s how we honor them."
"I could almost smell the sunscreen and drippy popsicles of my pool days."
"But most of all, I wondered if a person could actually burst from so many feelings at once."
"Sometimes we get it wrong the first time. But you only have to get it right once."
"This is it: the one way I could say what I needed to."
"I realized that I was one-fourth of a family that is not normal and that no family is normal."