Page 86: "But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you."
Page 131: "Hearing this, I felt a strange mix of annoyance and shame. Like when you hear something you don't want to be true, but have a feeling probably is."
Page 143: "And like most times I found myself with hard choices, I just wished there was something clear and easy, right in between."
Page 147: "It's funny the things you remember."
Page 175: "As long as you were moving, you were always going somewhere."
Page 180: "'...But you take the bad to get to the great. That's just how it works. Right?'"
Page 192: "'Demarcation?'...'It means a clear separation between two things... A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity.'"
Page 218: "...there was a comfort in there being no question, no room for doubt."
Page 232: "In between ahd high above, I did all I could to soak up the stillness while it lasted."
Page 237: "'It's John Wayne.'Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.'"
Page 238: "I don't know you, I thought. And yet I do. It was the weirdest feeling."
Page 244: "'Well,...someone's gotta be first to buck the trend, right?'"
Page 254: "There are just moments you look up from any once place and realize, suddenly, you have no idea how you got there."
Page 265: "It struck at something deep and primal in me, flipping a switch I couldn't reach no matter how I contorted myself."
Page 282: "It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well."
Page 292: "'You're special, Emaline. You're not just any other girl.'" "All this time, I'd seen it from the other side, as a way of focusing on all the things I wasn't. But to him, to be different was the better choice, even ideal. Yet again, he was giving me another view, and I liked how I looked from here."
Page 306: "Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again."
Page 316: "And right then, while I still could, it was exactly where I wanted to be."
Page 326: "we were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love--all kinds--was really all about."
Page 328: "'...Just a way of giving my older stuff another chance. I mean, an opportunity to do things differently, with the benefit of hindsight? That's a hard thing to turn down.'"
Page 329: "'I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. They replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it.'" "'Just because you don't get a chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.'"
Page 337: "'I'm driven. I don't settle. If I see something better within reach, I go for it...Risk is part of ambition...'"
Page 345: "'...The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you. If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.'"
Page 352: "'Disappointment, is part of life. Just like change.'"
Page 353: "'But from there, I can go anywhere. It's supposed to be a start, not a finish.'" "'You have no idea how one bad choice, one stupid mistake, can change everything for you. And once it's done, believe me: it's done. But the sick part is, you'll still spend your whole life trying to fix it.'"
Page 356: "Worse, I had no idea where to go, or anyone who could understand."
Page 381: "Then again, I kind of admire his ability to go for what he wanted. I agonized and worried before making the safest movie; Theo saw his opportunity and took it..."
Page 410: "A reminder that not everyone is what they seem right at first glance."
Page 435: "The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns."
