Top 100 Matson Quotes
#1. If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho ... even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back.
Philip K. Dick
#2. Matson threw up his skinny arms to protect himself as something huge and quick shoved its way between the bars, like a big dog going through a rotten picket fence, and engulfed him.
Jim Butcher
#3. 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.
Morgan Matson
#4. (And believe me, you don't want me to be unhappy. I may be looking into the haunting thing right now.)
Morgan Matson
#5. You can always find your way out, no matter how lost you are.
Morgan Matson
#6. It's not about the destination. It's getting there that's the good part.
- Leonard
Morgan Matson
#7. There was something about being alone in places that were usually filled with people that made them seem particularly empty when it was just you.
Morgan Matson
#8. It's fascinating to watch a man of his stature be so domesticated. It's downright erotic.
T.C. Matson
#10. 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.
Morgan Matson
#11. Car," Frank said, placing his hands on my shoulders and turning me in the direction of the parking lot. "I'll be there in five minutes."
"This is going to take *five minutes*?" Collins grumbled as he bent down to pick up a cup.
Morgan Matson
#12. 4. Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.
Morgan Matson
#13. Things felt strange and tentative between us, in a way they never had.
Morgan Matson
#14. 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 ...
Morgan Matson
#15. 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.
Morgan Matson
#16. It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.
Morgan Matson
#17. You + Me
saw this ...
AMERICA
Thank you for finding America with me
Morgan Matson
#18. It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.
Morgan Matson
#19. I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.
Morgan Matson
#20. You're the brightest thing in the room," he said. He lifted his hand from my waist, and slowly, carefully brushed a stray lock of hair from my cheek. "You shine.
Morgan Matson
#21. I'd always hated any kind of peanut butter candy. Peanut butter, in my opinion, belonged in sandwiches and nowhere else.
Morgan Matson
#22. I leaned closer to look at it, at all those empty squares that represented the days of summer ahead.
Morgan Matson
#23. And sometimes," she added, in slightly hushed tones, like she was letting me in on a secret, "if you don't feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won't be able to tell the difference." (Bronwyn)
Morgan Matson
#24. It was like seeing the slides at the optometrist, when you didn't even realize how blurry something was until you got to see the clearer version, and you could see what had been obscured before.
Morgan Matson
#25. life is sad.......when you are living it alone.
Morgan Matson
#26. 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.
Morgan Matson
#27. Looking at it, I got, for the first time, why people would bring flowers to sick people, stuck inside the hospital with no way to get outside. It was like bringing them a little bit of the world that was going on without them.
Morgan Matson
#28. I made it to the sidewalk and took off Bronwyn's shoes, looping the heel straps over my wrists. The stars above were beautiful, the sky was amazingly clear, and I could smell the fire faintly, but I barely registered any of it
Morgan Matson
#29. We can't know what's going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.
- Roger Sullivan
Morgan Matson
#30. When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.
Randy Matson
#31. And I've realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn't all we need - love is all there is.
Morgan Matson
#32. 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.
Morgan Matson
#33. 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.
Morgan Matson
#34. You die." Thad's voice was heavy; the fire was gone. "It's like everyone has a personal window of time that the gateway to Nil stays open for them. It's always one year. Exactly three hundred sixty-five days. If you miss that window, you're done.
Lynne Matson
#35. A man on a quest. A Don Quixote searching for his Dulcinea. But keep in mind my good friend, Don Quixote never found his Dulcinea, did he? He did not. There sometimes isn't much difference between a knight's quest and a fool's errand.
Morgan Matson
#36. We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.
Pamela A. Matson
#37. Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through adversity
Morgan Matson
#38. I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.
Morgan Matson
#39. We lay there together for a little while longer, watching the sun over the lake as it finally started to go down, and twilight started to fall all around us, the fireflies starting to wink in the grass.
Morgan Matson
#40. It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice
Morgan Matson
#41. Do you not like The Beatles?" Frank asked, sounding shocked. "Do you also not like sunshine and laughter and puppies? I don't think the Beatles get enough recognition. I mean, when you look at their body of work and how they changed music forever. I think there should be federal holidays and parades
Morgan Matson
#42. maybe Lucy was wrong - maybe sometimes there was such a thing as perfect moment.
Morgan Matson
#43. 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
Morgan Matson
#45. It seemed crazy that something so big, so seemingly permanent, could be knocked down by a little wind and rain.
Morgan Matson
#46. You said you didn't want to waste your time on people who aren't going to matter," I said, and he nodded. "But how do you know they're not going to matter? Unless you give it a shot?
Morgan Matson
#47. If you like everything, that's basically just saying that you don't really like anything.
Morgan Matson
#48. I understood in a flash why, on the Greyhound sign, Arrivals and Departures were right next to each other. Because sometimes, like in that moment, they can mean exactly the same thing.
Morgan Matson
#49. 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.
Morgan Matson
#51. I could do this. If whole galaxies could change, so could I.
Morgan Matson
#52. Keep people at arm's length and your feelings to yourself.
Morgan Matson
#53. Then she smiled at me and said what she always did before we went out. Let's go have the best night ever.
Morgan Matson
#54. 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.
Morgan Matson
#55. Your childhood friends are the ones you should hang on to. They know you in a way that nobody else does.
Morgan Matson
#56. I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun.
Morgan Matson
#57. In a well-ordered universe, there would be no mysteries. You'd just know things. There wouldn't be these big, hanging questions.
Morgan Matson
#58. I was trying not to think about ho acutely aware I was that there were two types of people
the type who could talk to anyone and make friends with them, and the type who spent parties hiding and sitting against trees.
Morgan Matson
#59. 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.
Morgan Matson
#60. 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.
Morgan Matson
#61. Roger, he has a chain saw, I hissed
I am not going to die in Kentucky!
Morgan Matson
#62. There were no other cars on the road. Just the sound of the wind, and the motor idling, and through his open window, the faint clicking sounds of Roger making another mix. I closed my eyes and let the wind whip my hair around my face, letting out a breath I hadn't known I'd been holding.
Morgan Matson
#63. 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.
Morgan Matson
#64. 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.
Morgan Matson
#65. 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.
Morgan Matson
#66. Ad astra per aspera. It's the Kansas state motto," he said to Roger and me, "To the stars through adversity
Morgan Matson
#67. If you have a gift for something, it's wrong not to work at it!
Morgan Matson
#68. I think there are lots of things still to be discovered. You just have to be paying attention.
Morgan Matson
#69. And we were kissing like drowning people breathe
like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.
Morgan Matson
#70. And how was your day? ... Did you do great things?
Morgan Matson
#71. It's always a risk. Wherever there is great emotion. because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.
Morgan Matson
#72. You don't have to go away to know where your home is.
Morgan Matson
#73. 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.
Morgan Matson
#74. 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.
Morgan Matson
#75. 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.
Morgan Matson
#76. Sometimes my grandfather was awake, and would sit with me while I looked up at the stars, needing to see something fixed and permanent while everything else in my life was falling apart.
Morgan Matson
#77. It will be scary. But I know you can do it. Know that I'll be with you, if there's any way that I can manage it. And know that I have always -and will, for always- love you.
Morgan Matson
#78. But I'd taken Lucien's lead and ordered what he had, something called sweet tea.
Morgan Matson
#79. You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.
Morgan Matson
#80. 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!
Morgan Matson
#81. 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
Morgan Matson
#82. They didn't dwell; they looked for solutions, made some snacks, and kept moving forward.
Morgan Matson
#83. 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.
Morgan Matson
#84. That was our place. That was where we used to make out!
Morgan Matson
#85. We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again
Morgan Matson
#86. How was I supposed to keep living in this town when everything I saw reminded me of someone I'd lost?
Morgan Matson
#87. 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.
Morgan Matson
#88. There was no In-N-Out in Connecticut, because clearly that state was an inhospitable wasteland.
Morgan Matson
#89. 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.
Morgan Matson
#90. He told me that if you yelled out "JAMBA!" at full volume, all the employees would yell back "JUICE!" He lied.
Morgan Matson
#91. Did you ever have a night that just ... seemed to change everything? And everything is different afterward?
Morgan Matson
#92. But it always felt like nothing had really happened until I'd talked to Sloane about it.
Morgan Matson
#93. Oh, he said softly. It was like this wasn't even a word. It felt more like he was laying out a stone for me to step on, so that I could keep going.
Morgan Matson
#94. And it was a kiss that felt like it could stop time.
Morgan Matson
#95. 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.
Morgan Matson
#96. But you can't help who you fall for. The heart wants what it wants.
Morgan Matson
#97. Theoretical crushes could remain perfect and flawless, because you never actually had to find out what that person was really like or deal with the weird way they chewed or anything.
Morgan Matson
#98. Roger: "God, I've been wanting to do that for a long time."
Amy: "Really"
Roger: "Oh yes. Since Kansas. At least.
Morgan Matson
#99. 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
Morgan Matson
#100. I tried to think of puns that might make my father laugh one more time, and I looked at the stars.
Morgan Matson
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