When We Collided Quotes
"I knew I was in love with Verona Cove on the first day, but I waited until the seventh day to commit."
"Fortunately, before the sun rises, no one polices Irving Park—or anywhere, really."
"When I’m done, I pat my handiwork because—okay, yes, I’m a nature vandalizer, but this is a crime of passion."
"The morning sun has edged past the horizon line, casting shadows of the leaves like lace on the sidewalk."
"This is why I want to stay forever, not just for the summer."
"I’ve lived in a few towns, so believe me when I say that Verona Cove isn’t one."
"I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need."
"My inspiration word is scrawled at the top and taunting me."
"I’ve read that animal coloration can be for mimicry or protection or for signaling to a predator or a potential sexual mate."
"The natural world makes the finest architects and designers and artists look like silly amateurs."
"I’m not sure how much time passes as I finish prepping the pizzas and mixing the salad."
"I’m not dealing with this noise. No way. I’ve paid my dues for the day."
"Movies make it seem like the first kiss is the big deal, and it is. Hell yeah, it is."
"I don’t know if you’ve ever sprawled out in a wide-open field and stared up at the blue sky and felt the planet humming all around you, but that’s what my days feel like here."
"It’s not just the meal that fills you up, but the feeling."
"My mind has been like a cement mixer for the past three days."
"The world smells like cut grass and beach air and hose water, and my stomach tightens with excitement."
"Because it’s all so fleeting, isn’t it? The ocean existed so long before us and will stay long after us—most trees, too, and some animals. Isn’t that crazy?"
"I’m just looking for some kind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I’m gone, in the places where I found joy."
"You call it normal to be despondent for six months? Maybe. I can’t really say."
"I’ve prowled the dirtiest back alleys of sadness, okay? And I know what it’s like to fight for your life on those mean streets."
"We splash and we reapply sunscreen and we cover Isaac in sand, sculpting a mermaid tail for him."
"I can’t tell if Jonah could ever really mock someone, not the way that other people do."
"I don’t know how you can live in the same house as someone who is heartbroken without sensing it."
"But there’s no adage for, like: gave one bird a cute boy named Ethan and made another bird named Adam jealous."
"I think about boats, how they’re powerful but so delicate compared to the fickle sea."
"We are seventeen and shattered and still dancing."
"Not when you fail to tell your wife that you have an extramarital daughter."
"I wish he has that feeling every minute of every day of his entire life."
"I keep thinking that I’m a different Vivi than I was just days ago."
"Modern science would disagree, but they don’t know you."
"I know that I am not malnourished and I don’t have aggressive cancer."
"The world seems so pointlessly sad sometimes—so harrowingly, impossibly, uselessly sad."
"It would feel like flying, like soaring, the wind barely resisting you."
"I always think I don’t believe in God because I don’t go to church and I don’t care what people do as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone."
"Sometimes I think my heart is made of rubber, and the world stretches it and twists so that it writhes in my chest and aches."
"You should listen—really listen—to the slosh of the waves and the distant call of Pacific birds."
"I wish I could fall asleep and wake up in two or three years."
"The best years of their lives are gone, and sometimes it feels like mine are, too."
"I’m not a grown-up! And you’re down here... fighting like idiots and breaking Mom and Dad’s wedding picture."
"I’m so tired of them fighting. I called them assholes."
"I’m the brightest, sparkliest thing in the whole joint."
"I thought I’d rather cook than bake. What can I say? I’m good."
"Trying to make things better sometimes makes us better, too."
"Every girl wants to be Dorothy Gale or maybe Glinda. I never wanted to be the tornado."
"If she’s the tornado, it’s not because she’s cut terror through a tiny town. It’s because she’s swept us all up into a place where there’s color everywhere."
"We’re talking about really serious stuff. But—I can’t explain it—the pulse of our conversation is steady."
"My mom’s already trying to talk the rest of us into going. I’m glad she can go, but . . . I don’t know."
"That’s the thing they never tell you about love stories: just because one ends, that doesn’t mean it failed."
"We know there are three little words branded inside my heart: Jonah was here."
"But just because I don’t know doesn’t mean it can’t be great."