Top 100 Morgan Matson Quotes
#1. He kissed me back. It lasted just a moment, but he kissed me back, right away, without hesitation, as though we'd always been doing it.
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#2. (And believe me, you don't want me to be unhappy. I may be looking into the haunting thing right now.)
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#3. It's not about the destination. It's getting there that's the good part.
- Leonard
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#4. In all the medical dramas I'd ever seen, there was always some solution, some last-minute, miraculously undiscovered remedy. Nobody ever just gave up on a patient. But it seemed like in real life, they did.
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#5. 4. Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.
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#6. You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard ...
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#7. I loved the idea that people could discover things. That you could be the person to see something first. Or see something that nobody else had been able to.
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#8. It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.
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#9. You + Me
saw this ...
AMERICA
Thank you for finding America with me
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#10. I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.
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#11. I leaned closer to look at it, at all those empty squares that represented the days of summer ahead.
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#12. life is sad.......when you are living it alone.
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#13. We'd also left lots of time unscheduled - the long stretches of hours we'd spend at the beach or walking around or just hanging out with no plan beyond maybe getting fountain Diet Cokes. It was Sloane - you usually didn't need more than that to have the best Wednesday of your life.
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#14. We can't know what's going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.
- Roger Sullivan
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#15. And I've realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn't all we need - love is all there is.
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#16. Hey," he said smiling at me pulling off his sunglasses. "Did you get me something good?"
"I think so," I said trying to ignore how hard my heart was beating. Then before I could think about it or analyze or consider what I was doing I leaned over and kissed him.
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#17. 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.
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#18. It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice
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#19. And as I touched his cheek and his hand tightened on my waist, I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun -Andie
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#20. If you like everything, that's basically just saying that you don't really like anything.
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#21. There was a spark between us that I'd never felt with any of the other (four) guys that I'd kissed. When we were making out, it was almost impossible for me to keep my hands off of him, and kissing him made my stomach flip over.
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#23. I could do this. If whole galaxies could change, so could I.
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#24. She spoke fast, and seemed to be a combination of stressed out and on the verge of cracking up, which was a mixture I wasn't sure I'd ever seen before.
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#25. I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun.
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#26. I started really crying, letting out everything I'd been holding tightly inside. I was relieved, but mostly I was just sad. Sad that I'd been holding on to this when I didn't have to.
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#27. It was like swimming under the stars, like sleeping outside, like climbing a tree in the dark and seeing the view. It was scary and safe and peaceful and exciting, all at the same time. It was the way I felt when I was with him. Like a well-ordered universe.
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#28. It was like hitting the snooze button on your alarm - your sleep in that window is never very good, since you know it's borrowed time, and that it will be over all too soon.
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#29. But I looked over at him, with his substitute math teacher glasses and hopeful expression, and my smile faded. He hadn't learned yet that things didn't work out just because you wanted then to.
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#30. I'd found out that when you're never going to see someone again, it's not the good-bye that matters. What matters is that you're never going to be able to say anything else to them, and you're left with an eternal unfinished conversation.
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#31. Ad astra per aspera. It's the Kansas state motto," he said to Roger and me, "To the stars through adversity
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#32. If you have a gift for something, it's wrong not to work at it!
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#33. I think there are lots of things still to be discovered. You just have to be paying attention.
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#34. And we were kissing like drowning people breathe
like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.
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#35. And how was your day? ... Did you do great things?
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#36. I knew I had no right to feel mad about this, but even so, I had to fight back the tears that were threatening to escape-for what Frank and I had had, and for what we would never have, and for what I'd broken.
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#37. 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 I'd just lost another friend.
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#38. I knew in that moment that things would be forever different- that today was gong to be the day that split my life into before and after.
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#39. You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.
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#40. I turned and saw that Frank had joined me in the line. He took a step closer to me and said in a low voice, Mind if I jump the line? He glanced behind him at the older couple who were pursing their lips in disapproval, and said, too loudly, Thank you for saving my place in line, Emily!
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#41. We were silent for a few minutes, and I realized it was okay. Maybe we didn't have to share every single feeling we were having, and analyze it. -Emily
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#42. They didn't dwell; they looked for solutions, made some snacks, and kept moving forward.
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#43. What happened?" I asked. "What did you say?"
Roger put the key in the ignition and looked over at me. "I told her good-bye," he said. Then he started the car and put in in gear, and we headed out.
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#44. That was our place. That was where we used to make out!
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#45. We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again
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#46. How was I supposed to keep living in this town when everything I saw reminded me of someone I'd lost?
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#47. As I stared at the stars, I realized that there were always this many of them. It was only when the other lights were removed that I could see what had been there all along.
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#48. I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.
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#49. He told me that if you yelled out "JAMBA!" at full volume, all the employees would yell back "JUICE!" He lied.
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#50. Did you ever have a night that just ... seemed to change everything? And everything is different afterward?
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#51. But it always felt like nothing had really happened until I'd talked to Sloane about it.
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#52. 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.
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#53. But you can't help who you fall for. The heart wants what it wants.
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#54. Roger: "God, I've been wanting to do that for a long time."
Amy: "Really"
Roger: "Oh yes. Since Kansas. At least.
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#55. The idea that you could rethink the thing you'd always thought you wanted and change your plan - it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful -Andie
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#56. I tried to think of puns that might make my father laugh one more time, and I looked at the stars.
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#57. The feeling that I was about to do something without being sure of the outcome. The feeling of just jumping off something and hoping that the ground would be there when I landed. - Amy
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#59. This idea that the person who kisses you first gets, with that kiss, a little piece of your soul. And they have a hold over you. Most people don't ever use it against you. But some people do.
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#60. Knowing that each breath was another moment he was still here and, simultaneously, that meant that he had just moved a little closer to being gone.
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#61. There sometimes isn't much difference between a knight's quest and a fool's errand. - Drew
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#62. Wait," Toby said, talking over her as she looked around at all of us. "So this means all you guys are off, like, rounding the bases and I'm still in the dugout. I'm the person selling Cracker Jack in the stands."
"This metaphor is getting weird," Palmer murmured to me.
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#63. And really, it's not about the destination. It's getting there that's the good part.
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#65. Because it was clear to me now that I'd already broken something.
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#66. In a well-ordered universe ... camping would take place indoors.
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#67. I'd just always assumed those constants, so basic, would never change. I hadn't even realized they were anything special at the time. And now I would have given anything to be back there again. - Amy
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#68. I couldn't help but notice that he'd pronounced her name differently, like her name, and only her name, contained all the good letters.
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#69. But this was the way I liked things. I ended it (or he did), I had a few weeks' getting over it and
listening to lots of girl-power music and eating ice cream, and then, before too long, I'd start to crush
on someone new and would begin the whole cycle over again. It worked for me.
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#70. Saying good-bye is basically an invitation not to see a person again. It's making it okay for that to be the last conversation you have. So if you don't say it--if you leave the conversation open--it means you'll have to see them again." ~Roger Sullivan
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#71. I realized there was a piece of me that had been waiting for this to happen ever since we'd become friends - the moment when Sloane would realize I wasn't cool enough, or daring enough, to be her best friend.
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#72. All the stuff you can't wait to get away from, until it's not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.
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#73. Emily, I might be hallucinating," she said calmly, as she turned to me. "Because I could almost swear that was Frank Porter.
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#74. It was like she knew a secret, a good one, and if you got close enough, maybe she'll tell you, too.
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#75. But slowly, I was beginning to feel lighter, like I'd just put down something that I'd been carrying for so long, I hadn't realized how heavy it had grown.
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#76. Soon this would just be who I was. Soon old me would be dead too. I tipped my head against the cold glass of the window. When I felt myself begin to cry, I didn't fight against it. And when I caught my refection in the dark window, I wasn't able to tell what was tears and what was rain.
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#77. I stretched up to him, and we stayed liken that for just a second, not kissing, not yet, just hovering in the moment before, only a breath apart.
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#78. She's been trying to escape since she was little. The thing I don't think she's realized is that eventually you have to stop. And what happens when you do?
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#79. I blinked them back, hard. I had a feeling that if I let myself start crying, there was a very real possibility I would never stop again.
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#80. You're so scared of things sometimes, and for no reason," Sloane said, her voice quieter. "And sometimes, I wish ... " She didn't finish the sentence, just let it hang in the car between us.
I wished it too - whatever it was that in that moment Sloane wanted me to be, that I was falling short of.
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#81. But as long as you know your constellations, you're never lost.
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#83. Just because you'd left something behind didn't mean that it had gone anywhere.
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#84. I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.
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#85. I'm not worried about your making friends, having fun, learning, or making your mark on the world. The only thing that I'm a little worried about is your heart.
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#86. I looked up at him, and a thought passed through my brain before I could stop or analyze it. It's you - of course it is. There you are. And
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#87. Or maybe I hadn't. Maybe I'd just been waiting for this moment, right now.
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#88. What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?
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#89. I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.
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#90. It was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire.
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#91. But one thing that I was learning about what happened when you stuck around - it usually seemed that other people were willing to stick by you as well.
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#92. A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.
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#93. And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.
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#94. If Frank and I tried to be something, it would be *real*, in a way that was scary - but also really exciting -Emily
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#95. Something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore"
"You did not just say that
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#96. Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends ... but in the end, it's just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It's better, really, to learn early. This way, you can save yourself some disappointment.
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#97. Sloane got strangely competitive when there were stuffed-animal prizes involved).
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#98. I didn't have enough voice left to scream. And it wasn't like anything was going to change. No matter how much I cried, even if I let myself yell, things were never going to get better.
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#99. It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.
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#100. I know things might not work, and I know it's scary, but the things that are worth it are. It feels right.
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