Slammed Quotes
"Locking up eighteen years of memories, all of which include my dad."
"A household that couldn't afford to remain in Texas and in the only home I've ever known."
"It doesn't matter which Kennedy, he would say. I love them all!"
"I mimic my mother's tone, 'Mom, stop being such an upper! I'm going to hate Michigan.'"
"I pick it up, wipe the dust off of it and run it back and forth between my fingers."
"Now that I look back on it, I realize he more than likely told her what I had done. But when I was five, I believed in his magic."
"I realize the stress of my father's death taking its toll on her, along with being the new head of household."
"Understanding a situation doesn't always make it easier."
"Note to self: locate the thermostat first thing in the morning."
"Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change."
"You’re killing me, Lake. Like I said, I don't really have anything new."
"Their material things will be sold, Their medical files stamped ‘closed’, Their name becoming a memory to everyone they know."
"This will be the longest three days of my life," he says.
"He was in a terrible accident," Kel says seriously before he and Caulder break out into a fit of giggles.
"Don't be so mad at her. You're lucky to have her."
"I didn't think it would be this hard," he says quietly.
"If it weren't for Caulder, I would have quit that first day I saw you in the hallway."
"That's a long wait, Lake. A lot can happen in a year."
"I'll paint you a world one day where smiles don't fade and laughter is played in the background."
"It's not to fight it, Lake. It's to manage my pain. It's all they can do now."
"But there was a moment, right before she hit the tree. We were laughing at the way she said 'bubble'."
"Everyone eventually falls asleep and stops crying in order for their bodies to process normal periods of rest. So no, you can't cry too much."
"He holds me against the wall with one arm while he turns the faucet on with the other. A stream of ice cold water splashes across my face. I gasp."
"I've had a lot of time to accept it. In fact, I feel lucky. Unlike your dad, at least I've got warning. Now I get to spend more time with the two of you here at home."
"But sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order. If it did, you wouldn't die until you were supposed to."
"I've spent the entire last eighteen years raising you, teaching you everything I know. It's supposed to be time for you to go screw up. Make mistakes. Not raise a child."
"I want to be your Dad, Eddie. I want to be your family for the rest of your life."
"The points are not the point; the point is poetry."
"Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people."
"I don't not fall in love with him. I don't not fall in love with him a lot!"
"You never know, someone in this very room might relate to this."
"I can honestly say I feel like I've moved through the five stages of grief in every aspect of my life."
"The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there."
"Push your boundaries Lake, that’s what they’re there for."
"I used to love the ocean, everything about her."
"Whatever it is you’re running from - it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it."
"Life doesn’t get all up in your damn way because it just wants you to hand it all over and be carried along. Life wants you to fight it."
"Sometimes, life gets in your way. It gets all up in your damn way."
"Life knows. Life is trying to tell me that the girl I love, the girl I fell so hard for? There's room for her in first."
"When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful. It isn't until the fifth stage of grief that the memories of them stop hurting as much."
"You've been doing so much thinking with your head that you're ignoring your heart completely. There has to be a balance."