The Moon And More Quotes
"When the final stop on a trip is paradise, being the second to last is no picnic."
"It’s like being forced into an immersion program for a language I had no interest in learning."
"You can claim certain privileges when you’re paying five grand for a week."
"But when you’re a landlord, it’s always something."
"Sometimes you just have to replace the hardware."
"It’s what I arranged and therefore what I expected and I won’t accept anything else!"
"I will find a way to get it to you. I will give you the moon, and more."
"It’s not a private entrance, it’s the garage."
"I’ve often told her we should have it needlepointed and framed."
"It was a vintage A-line, Emaline. It’s classic. Knows no season."
"It’s the difference between something being off and on."
"People will always have to get from here to there."
"There’s no such thing as a free lunch."
"That’s his cell. I was going to drop it by the office with your mom to give you on my way back to the job."
"Just call him, get it over with," my dad said.
"My aunt passed away a couple of months back. We’re cleaning out her place to get it ready to go on the market."
"He really hurt you, though, Emaline. You should tell him so."
"My parents are out tonight," he said. "Want to see if we can get busted at my place this time?"
"You know I hate that word," Daisy replied. "It makes me sound like I’m starting a revolution."
"I’m sorry," she called after me. "I just really wondered what he wanted."
"You just had a burger at lunch," he said to Benji. "I think you’d better go with salad and a lean protein now."
"If he needs a good realtor," Margo said to me as I passed her.
"All right, buddy," he said. "Let’s get going."
"Right, right." My father looked at me and smiled.
"He’s from New York," I told him, like this explained everything.
"But do you really think we can be here, together, and have him not be aware of what’s happening?"
"We’ve been together since ninth grade, Emaline. We go to college in a few weeks."
"I’m sure admitting this isn’t going to win me any parenting awards, but I can’t take this."
"I’m just along for the ride right now. I’m hard to entertain."
"I know. But you take the bad to get to the great. That’s just how it works."
"I don’t even know what you’re apologizing for yet."
"I guess it’s been a while since I’ve spent an extended amount of time with him without Leah."
"You think that’s worth a half a million bucks?"
"I have no idea what the window budget was for this place."
"It was like an insult to him. I felt like an insult to him."
"It’s canvas, ground shells, plaster, some tubes of paint."
"Change is inevitable, though. As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now."
"You don’t understand! Columbia was my chance to fix everything for you."
"You’re so young, you have no idea how one bad choice, one stupid mistake, can change everything for you."
"But to him, to be different was the better choice, even ideal."
"I think I can just relate, with him and me, there’s a lot of big stuff ahead."
"You can never be sure of anyone until you’re close enough to see them clearly."
"The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever."
"When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between."
"All this time, I'd thought this was about what he wanted for my life, my future. But it was never about me."
"My mom taught me that if you made a mistake, you owned up to it, learned from it."
"I wasn’t a problem or mistake. I was his daughter."
"Like the next word would tip the balance, for good, forever."
"When you’ve never gotten love from someone, you don’t know what it might look like if it ever does appear."
"I'd lost something I never really had. And yet, the sadness in finally letting it go was as real as the tears."
"We wouldn’t have some big bonding moment, a sudden shift where he became everything I needed him to be."
"He wasn’t a problem for me to fix, either. Instead, he was a truth to accept."
"I can’t believe he still acts like such a spoiled brat. I swear, it’s like he never grew up at all."
"Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be okay to just be."
"It doesn’t matter whether you’re the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually."
"He’s a really nice guy, you know. But I still don’t want you at the campground."
"You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star."
"The thing I’ve always prided myself on is that I always did my best to keep him from hurting you."
"You don’t know what you’re doing! Trust me. I’ve actually been to an art show or two."
"He’s your kid, he’s scared, and he needs you to tell him everything is going to be all right."
"I have a dad, and right now, Benji needs his."
"But he did give me Benji, and I would be forever grateful."