Heart Bones Quotes
"I think when you’re the worst of people, finding the worst in others becomes a survival tactic of sorts."
"The ugliest version of a family, where coping is the only thing you learn."
"Most kids get the kind of parents that’ll be missed after they die. The rest of us get the kind of parents who make better parents after they’re dead."
"A father should be more aware of what’s going on in his child’s life."
"I’ve yet to shed a tear for my mother, but I can somehow spare one for a repetitive act of nature?"
"Seeing the ocean in person feels almost as important as having food and shelter."
"It’s weird, though, isn’t it? Why do people judge other people based on how tightly their skin clings to their bones?"
"I never felt like I’ve belonged to either one of them. It’s as if I adopted myself when I was a kid and have been on my own since then."
"That’s what staring at the ocean produces. Thoughts. Lots of them."
"We didn’t receive food stamps because my mother was never sober enough to make her appointments."
"I’ve spent my whole life just trying to survive; I’ve never really thought about the things that lie beyond that."
"There are children who learn to do whatever it takes to survive."
"I was never lost," he says pointedly. "I didn’t spend my gap year backpacking through Europe."
"Being here on this beach with the type of people I’m sure I would have been invisible to in high school is hard for me."
"We’ve already been assigned workout routines and schedules from the coach, but I haven’t even opened the email."
"We didn’t speak much, but I surprisingly didn’t mind her company."
"I wish I could be inside his head for a day. How do they view the world?"
"I’ve spent a lot of years becoming the person I am. It’s hard to change who you are in a span of a few days."
"Because most of the time, the fun you have that leads to the pain is worth the pain."
"Summers are for thinking about today and today only. Not tomorrow. Not yesterday. Today."
"The more money you have, the harder it is to find things to be excited about."
"People who aren’t rich think all those things are fulfilling, but they aren’t."
"If you were more like me, Samson wouldn’t look at you the way he does."
"You’re the only person I’ve ever met who would probably like me more if I were poor."
"I’d rather have casual sex with him than let him hug me."
"It’s as if he can see the inside of me before he notices what’s outside."
"I don’t have to know anything about your past to know you’re a good person."
"I feel anxious now. I was so convinced he would like it; I didn’t think about what it might mean if he didn’t."
"We’re both dramatic because we have dramatic parents and dramatic pasts."
"Why would it matter what kind of family you have, or how rich you are, or what the people in your past meant to you before I showed up?"
"I can’t be that far away from you. Phone calls and letters aren’t going to be enough."
"He makes me feel prettier than I probably am."
"This is Samson. I don’t care what anyone else believes."
"Go flood the whole goddamn world, Beyah."