Quotes by Morgan Matson

Ill answer that. He took a deep breath, and I could see his eyes searching mine, like he was looking for an answer. I had thought that was the ending, he finally said. But I might have been wrong.I was just thinking, I said, sure that the rest of the crowd could probably hear how hard my heart was beating, since it seemed deafening to me, pounding in my ears, that maybe Marjorie realized she was in love with Karl. And told him that. And said she was sorry for being scared.

I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didnt come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.

And when I started to cry as I pulled into my driveway,it was coming down hard enough that I could pretend that it was only the rain hitting my face, and not the fact that Id just lost another friend.

I know, I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip wed ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.

We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that wed once been fluent in and were finding again

“What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?”

“As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here, facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running away from this, tired of not telling people, tired of not talking about it, tired of pretending things were okay when they had never, ever been less than okay.”

“And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly wed discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.”