Letters To The Lost Quotes
"I'm so lucky to be on this crazy ride with you." (Mostly because we keep each other from jumping off.)
"Every time I look at it, I think, 'I know exactly how she feels.'"
"Funny how the date is etched into my brain, but it's etched into someone else's for something entirely different."
"You can see it on her face. Her reality is being ripped away, and she knows it."
"Her career kept her on the cutting edge of technology, but she craved the permanence and precision of the old-fashioned."
"What you wrote implies that you understand agony."
"I don’t think you understand agony yourself. If you did, you wouldn’t have interfered with mine."
"I think of that picture sometimes. Of that moment."
"Sometimes I feel like the photographer, unable to do anything but watch."
"Kevin Carter killed himself after he won the Pulitzer."
"I don’t know if you’ll even read my apology, but I need to say the words to someone."
"I know she’s dead. I know she can’t read the letters."
"You’re right. I shouldn’t have interfered with your grief."
"Words are words. Dropping an f-bomb wouldn’t make me an idiot any more than saying 'sesquipedalian' makes someone intelligent."
"You’re not a bad kid to have around, Declan."
"You’d feel better if I told you to call me Francisco?"
"My friend’s got a set of cables. He lives right over there."
"Thanks so much for coming out. I didn’t mean to get you in trouble."
"Sometimes you get to a point where it hurts too much, and you'll do anything to get rid of the pain."
"I've never really been scared of my mother, but that day I was."
"We only had each other now, and we had to help take care of each other."
"It's not like I would have pushed her in front of a car."
"I'm supposed to be on my way to meet Rowan for lunch, but my steps are slow."
"I didn’t realize I’d been so far adrift until he grabbed hold of me."
"I want to let someone else carry this weight, even if it’s just for a little bit."
"It’s a stupid camera. A stupid hour of time."
"Everything feels wrong. It’s all so pointless."
"We could reassure each other until our fingers fall off."
"There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, when the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay."
"You're exactly as strong as I thought you were."
"You don’t have to act like such a prick, Alan."
"I didn’t know who you are, because right now I want to wander the halls of this school until I find you, so I can grab you and shake you and tell you THIS IS NOT YOUR FAULT."
"Each moment I sit out here, I’m not with her."
"Sometimes I wish I had died in that car with Kerry."
"But right now, after what I just found out about my mother, I wish I had."
"It’s okay to be mad that your mom is pregnant."
"You take every chance you get to do something wrong! You don’t think about anyone but yourself, and when someone does something you don’t like, you do everything you can to destroy it!"
"I would give anything for her to close that distance. For her to talk to me."
"I’m sorry," I yell, and my voice breaks. "I’m sorry, okay? I’m sorry I didn’t drive him. I’m sorry I let Kerry go. I’m sorry."
"You only know what I’ve shared, but that’s not the whole story. It’s only a snapshot, just like your photographs."
"I’m not a good person, Cemetery Girl. I’m not good at cultivating things, only destroying them."
"My chest is collapsing. He can’t do this. He can’t do this."
"But I can’t say it. I don’t want to know, not right now. I can’t bare myself in front of this Declan, especially if I’m wrong."
"It’s okay," I say, even though it’s so obviously not. I hold her tight, whispering against her hair. "It’s okay."
"I wish I could return to that moment in the cafeteria. I wish I could tell Juliet. I wish I could hold her and whisper the truth."
"But no one is buying you off," he says, his voice matching mine for intensity. "You said that’s what a mechanic would charge, so I’m choosing to pay you."
"I’m sorry for what I said," I say. "I’m so sorry."
"Because I loved you, and you loved her. I couldn’t take that away from you."
"None of it’s fair, Juliet." I shake my head and think of Alan. "None of it."