Jennifer E. Smith

Quotes

• “But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers ...”
• “This," I say softly, "is going to change everything."I don't mean it the way I usually do.I don't mean that change is ha...”
• “It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish...”
• “It had always been the two of them through everything -every adventure and every expedition- and now there was this awfu...”
• “It's just one more thing she hadn't considered, and as the idea of it settles over her, she realizes again how entwined ...”
• “But it was different, somehow, to be reading it here, where the actual events had taken place all those hundreds of thou...”
• “Because even this --being so close to her --was no longer the same. That light he'd felt when he first saw her --he unde...”
• “The idea that their paths might have easily not crossed leaves her breathless, like a near-miss accident on a highway, a...”
• “Maybe the answer to all of his problems was nothing more than a darkened sky and a glittering city, a lofty perch above ...”
• “Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time yo...”
• “They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopp...”
• “She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks...”
• “I might not say it, but I obviously show you how I feel,” she says. “Why do the words have to be so important?”“They jus...”
• “Her eyes travel down to where he's gripping the handle of her suitcase. "What're you doing?" she asks, blinking at him."...”
• “Hi,' he says.'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry.'You know,' Nick says as he hands he...”
• “No matter how long it’s been or how far you’ve drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two p...”
• “It was exactly as he’d thought it would be, like the first time and the millionth time all at once, like being wide awak...”
• “Maybe this was why Owen had been so desperate to travel, why she'd longed for it herself without ever really knowing why...”
• “Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. Th...”
• “There was a lump in her throat as she watched him fidget with the buttons on his vest, and it struck her as the truest f...”
• “He'd thought this was the start of something. But clearly she'd changed her mind, and he felt stunned by home quickly th...”
• “He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories, a...”
• “I think you have to be more of a believer for these things to work," he said, wiping some ice cream from his face. "How ...”
• “It took a moment to right himself, and he pulled his shoulders back as he regained his equilibrium. He didn't want to be...”
• “You could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret-by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the wa...”
• “they'd become unaccustomed to the brightness of their own city, and, faced with it now in all its intensity, they cupped...”
• “There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if yo...”
• “But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality...”
• “Suddenly, it seemed there were about a million times he was supposed to have kissed her, even without the benefit of a s...”
• “She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two puzzles, and nothing in the ...”
• “Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last,...”
• “That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secr...”
• “He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah," he says sitting back....”
• “There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that ...”
• “The morning felt like a mixing bowl just waiting for its ingredients; there was a sense of possibility to it, a promise ...”
• “...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was wo...”
• “There’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night, tha...”
• “and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left be...”
• “Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettli...”
• “She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.”
• “Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people.”
• “And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.”
• “There are different kinds of happy, some kinds don't need any proof-Ellie O'Neill, This is What Happy Looks Like”
• “Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly you do?”
• “And the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong.”
• “Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.”
• “Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.”
• “Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
• “It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.”
• “Happy Graduation," he said."Now go get her.”