I Was Here Quotes
"It says ‘best friends,’" she explained. And like all things Meg wanted or predicted, it turned out to be true.
"You will never know how it feels to be a firefly."
"It says you can still forgive her. And she will forgive you back."
"Consistency was one of the many things I loved about Meg’s house."
"How long has this decision been coming without her telling me? And more to the point, why didn’t she tell me?"
"Meg’s voice that could make anyone do anything, anytime."
"But eventually, I’ll have to exhale her, and then it’ll be like those mornings, when I wake up, forgetting before remembering."
"Never sleep with the bartender, girls... But mostly because you stop getting free drinks."
"I didn’t know anything about her life here. I didn’t know about her classes. I didn’t know about her roommates. I didn’t know that she’d adopted two sick kittens and nursed them back to health only to leave them homeless."
"How can you believe someone to be beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you’ve ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison that robbed her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?"
"The crowd isn’t huge, about twenty people, and everyone’s wearing their regular clothes."
"It’s wrong that there should be days like this. That spring should come."
"Nothing ever is. If I had the computer, I could probably decrypt it for you."
"We could’ve had so much fun geeking out together."
"Suicide is the one exception. It takes a brave soul to choose this path."
"I’m the dead girl’s best friend. So it’s an even playing field. Which frees me up to totally kick your butt."
"I’ve got this far. And I know how to text. Raymond showed me."
"The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths—maybe because they are easier than truths."
"Who cared about those gossips? If the wall was a good outlet for Meg, leave it be."
"Theoretically, I am saving for the move to Seattle. Theoretically, I learned in physics that the universe is expanding at a rate of, like, forty-five miles a second, but it sure as shit doesn’t feel that way when you’re standing still."
"I think she wanted to leave him with that. If I tell Scottie what I found, I’ll wreck that, maybe wreck him, too."
"I’ve always said it’s better to be hated than it is to be ignored. Maybe on the same lines, it’s better to feel this than to feel nothing."
"I don’t know if it’s because I can sense the closeness between Meg and All_BS. Or if it’s because in her litany of people she worried about leaving behind, she mentioned her parents, her brother, but she didn’t mention me."
"I press my fingers against my eyes until everything goes black. 'So, look. Meg talked about confiding in someone who told her to go to her campus health center to get antidepressants. I thought maybe she was talking about you.'"
"We don’t know that for sure. Animals might not swallow poison, but maybe they stop eating or separate from the herd, knowing it means they’ll be someone’s dinner that way."
"The lies slip off my tongue so easily now, they barely register as untrue."
"I’m not one of those people who has spent a lot of time thinking about death, or imagining her own death, or dreaming of it, or wanting it. At least I didn’t think I was. But so much shit has happened in the last year of my life that I am questioning whether I even have a life, or if what I thought was my life is actually an illusion, or maybe a delusion. Because it doesn’t seem like living to me. It seems like persevering, like that’s the most I can hope for. I’m not that old, but I’m already so tired. Even getting out of bed each morning seems like an enormous chore. Life seems to be about endurance, not enjoyment, not fulfillment. I don’t see the point. If someone told me I could go back and undo my birth, I think I might. I really do."
"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity."
"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve."
"Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase."
"All intelligent men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened."
"Life seems to be about endurance, not enjoyment, not fulfillment. I don’t see the point."
"I’ve still gotten no response from All_BS, and I keep re-reading all the messages, trying to figure out what to do next."
"The library has become my lifeline, my conduit to All_BS. It’s already been four days since we last communicated, and I’m strung out."
"It’s hard to trace a telephone number, but not as hard to track an application’s user. This is how even the best criminals get caught. They are so careful—until they’re not."
"Death is the ultimate rite of passage, and it can be a most sacred ritual. Sometimes, in order to make it personal, you must make it anonymous."
"Because it kills hope. That's the sin. Anything that kills hope is a sin."
"Forgiveness is God's gift to us. Christ forgave us. He forgave our sins. That was his gift. But by allowing us to forgive each other, he opened us up to that divine love."
"Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny."
"Would you want to go on living if the sun went out?"
"Within a week, the temperature on Earth would drop to below zero. Within a year, it would fall to minus one hundred."
"I’m a planet without its sun. I’m already cold and dead."
"What would you do if someone did to him what you did to Meg?"
"The sob that rises up comes from deep within me."
"Even if I could get the words out, I wouldn’t know what to say."
"I don’t want his son to die. It wouldn’t even anything out."
"Life can be hard and beautiful and messy, but hopefully, it will be long."
"It’s not enough to confide in someone. Once you tell someone, he or she can help you find the professional help and support you need."