Quotes By Author: morgan matson

“You + Mesaw this…AMERICAThank you for finding America with me”

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

“Tomorrow will be better.”“But what if it’s not?” I asked.“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”

“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.”

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

“Roger, he has a chain saw,” I hissed. “I am not going to die in Kentucky!”

“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren’t looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.-Roger Sullivan”

“Daddy,” I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. “I love you.”Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. “I knew that,” he murmured. “Always knew that.”

“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren’t looking for them.”

“All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.”

“I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”