Before We Were Strangers Quotes
"Life was passing me by at high speed as I sat back with my feet up, rejecting change, ignoring the world."
"I was in the middle of the city I loved, back in her arms again, but we were strangers."
"Recording studios, film labs, and record stores were dying, if not already vacant corpses turned cupcake shops or blow-dry bars."
"I had come out of the field, where I had seen everything, and I went into a hole, where I saw nothing."
"You got me. You have to see this girl. We’ll call it a work meeting."
"I’m sure this qualifies as sexual harassment somewhere."
"I need to stop by Verizon first and get a new battery."
"First of all, no one says ‘cell phone’ anymore. Second, that’s not a phone; that’s an artifact."
"You’re thirty-six. That’s young. Not compared to Kitty."
"It’s a picture of an Iraqi child holding an automatic weapon."
"The Pulitzer you got for it, genius, not the picture."
"I had volunteered to go back on location to South America with a National Geographic film crew."
"I wondered if I could judge how lonely a person was based on how much of a hurry he or she was in."
"I was indifferent toward her and her pregnancy news."
"I learned more about myself that year than any other."
"I saw you in the park, you were wearing a powder blue jacket."
"Grace wasn’t there, and I was relatively sure no one under the age of thirty could be found in the 'missed connections' section."
"I love you, Grace," he said near my ear, and then he was inside of me.
"That’s the one thing you get from your father."
"I think porn is more about pleasing men." Matt was wise beyond his years.
"Don’t worry, it’ll feel good when you’re ready."
"You’re much better on the other side of that thing."
"Don’t forget, those are just tools. The music travels through the instruments, but it comes from you, from your soul."
"Let Monica unleash her judge-y bullshit. Let them all go to hell."
"You cannot relive the sensation of fear, admiration, self-consciousness, passion, and desire all mixed into one because it never happens twice."
"I don’t care, and you shouldn’t either. They will never be satisfied in life because, no matter how much they have, they will always want more."
"I don’t know what other people do, and I don’t really care."
"Killjoy," I muttered. "Fine, I’ll get it started, but I’m gonna get some after."
"All right, I have to turn the red light off to develop it so it’s going to be completely dark in here for about twelve minutes."
"You got it. Let’s get Tati and Brandon. This is so fun!" she squealed.
"I’m having fun. I’m glad you arranged this," I told her.
"But, actually, this case is a little different."
"I’m going to grad school because I want an advanced degree."
"I wish I could really laugh about this, but I’m just so angry with my parents right now."
"I must tell you we had to sell the piano and some of your things that I don’t think you wanted anyway to help pay for your sister’s tooth."
"I think, once everything was stripped away and he saw her near the end of her life, he loved her, too."
"I loved the person I thought you were, but I realize now she never existed."
"I was a new, young mom, trying to figure everything out."
"I’ve thought about doing this with you a lot over the last fifteen years. Is that weird?"