What To Say Next Quotes
"Parents name their child at a time when they have the absolute least amount of information they will ever have about the person they are naming."
"My sister is the anti-me. She won numerous Senior Superlatives last year: Most Popular, Most Attractive, Most Likely to Succeed."
"I like Kit because she’s never been mean to me, which is not something I can say about the vast majority of my classmates."
"My parents have been married for twenty-two years and they are still in love. This is statistically remarkable."
"I am not superstitious. I don’t believe in made-up things like fate. I believe in science."
"It’s almost enough to make me reconsider the entire concept of fate."
"It’s not even a real lie. People use the words want and need interchangeably all the time."
"It's the middle of the night. Just stumbled across this attached article re the five stages of grief."
"Everyone tiptoes around me these days. Even my mom. Your brutal honesty is…bizarrely refreshing."
"You sure tell it like it is. Not many people do that, you know."
"It’s comforting to believe or at least hope that a small part of him, actually the most important part of him, his consciousness, may be out there somehow."
"I attempt to figure out at what point a foot would have needed to touch the brake for there never to have been a crash at all."
"Suddenly I look around and see everyone talking and laughing, no less than two feet in front of me, and they feel miles away."
"We are all strangers to each other in the end."
"I’m terrified of the inevitable day when someone accidentally sits on my lap."
"The English language, like all languages, is full of frustrating ambiguity."
"I have no idea how they’ve managed to swing it—popularity is an undefinable thing at Mapleview."
"My stomach clenches. Freshman year, when I would find myself in trouble at school on a biweekly basis, Principal Hoch would pose this question, which is both idiomatic and rhetorical."
"You can’t get rid of me that easily. I’m like a rash."
"I liked holding David’s hand, though. That part—the snow dampening my face, letting my tears mix without anyone seeing, his fingers snug in mine—that was nice."
"To taste your food. To feel your breathing. To notice when you go from sitting to standing."
"I let David fill our table up with conversation, his words like cartoon bubbles taking up the space I can’t seem to fill."
"You start out as low twin primes and as time goes on, if you manage to defy the statistical odds and not get divorced, you become like those rarer twin primes, still only separated by two."
"I’m not sure what prime numbers have to do with anything."
"My notebook is no longer a tangible thing. It’s like a dead person’s consciousness. There but not there. Everywhere at once."
"I’ll be looked at, examined, but I won’t even be eaten. I’m not worth that much."
"Kit was right about one thing: I am disgusting."
"I am not socially isolated, which is one of the indicators for that sort of antisocial, sociopathic behavior. I am now friends with Kit Lowell."
"I don’t believe in violence, unless it’s for self-defense purposes."
"I see her back as she ran away from me as fast as her legs would take her."
"I’m not scared. I know various forms of self-defense, including but not limited to kung fu and krav maga."
"I’m doing just fine. I’ve made friends. Just like a normal person."
"I am going to school and if anyone asks me to die, I will say, No, thank you, and keep walking."
"I have no intention of eating my own testicles."
"I gave a first warning. I followed all the rules of fair combat."
"We have only sixty minutes a week allotted to my learning how to play the guitar and I’d prefer not to waste them."
"Sometimes people grow from breaking. That’s what I think was happening with your father and me before he died—I truly believe we were going to work things out—and it’s what I think we both should aim for now. Not just survival. We need to become even better versions of ourselves."
"I don’t want to die. Not really. I just suck at living."
"You couldn’t have braked. There was nothing you could have done."