“Silence fell between us. This was a common occurrence whenever we’re alone. When you’re comfortable with someone, you don’t need to always fill the void with noise. I liked it when we would just be.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“This entire time I've been thinking about where my home was. At first it was California, then Wisconsin. But in truth, home isn't necessarily where you sleep at night. It's where you feel like yourself. Where you're most comfortable. Where you don't have to pretend, where you can just be you.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“On a scale from one to ten, how much of a pain was I after my injury?
And please be honest.
Do you think I would hold back on you?
Unfortunately, no.
On a scale from one to ten? Thirteen.
Fair enough.
Now I have a question for you.
On a scale from one to ten, how annoyed were you that I was going to the dance with someone else?
Infinity.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“So, as I was saying, guys and girls can be friends.
Best friends.
And what's better than falling in love with your best friend?
Nothing.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“But in truth, home isn't necessarily where you sleep at night. It's where you feel like yourself. Where you're most comfortable. Where you don't have to pretend, where you can be just you.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“I'll never understand why everybody puts so much emphasis on January first. There are three hundred and sixty-four other days in the year that you can make a change. Or make a fresh start.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“If I only had one goal, it would be to make her laugh loudly every day.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“sometimes silence speaks much louder than words possibly could.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“What time do you need to get ready for college boy?” I looked at my watch. “I probably should leave soon. Do you think it’s strange that he’s taking me?”
Levi shook his head. “I would find it odd if anybody didn’t want to take you anywhere you wanted to go.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“I am not complete without you.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“We had both made mistakes and been admittedly stubborn, but we need to move on with, not away from, each other.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“Friends lie to make each other feel better.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“So, as I was saying, guys and girls can be friends.'
'Best friends.'
'And what is better than falling in love with your best friend?'
'Nothing.'
'You always have to get the last word in, don't you?'
'You know it.'
'Yes, I do.'
'Yep.'
'Oh, Macallan...'
'Yes, Levi?'
'I love you.'
'I love you, too.'
'And there you are again, having to get the last word in.'
'But I don't think you mind.'
'Not at all.'
'Good.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“We'd hit rock bottom, but this is what is found there. The truth.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“So does this mean we're officially young adults now?" I asked her.
"I don't know. I've already been reading those kinds of books for a few years."
"Uh-oh, does this mean I'm still a baby? I really love EVERYONE POOPS.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“Secrets only ended up hurting other people.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“We all knew that you'd eventually end up with Macallan. I guess I should be offended, but maybe I read too many romance novels to no want to cheer for the two best friends.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“It was pretty cool to have someone around here who didn't like the same things as everybody else.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“But that's the thing with the what -if game- you really never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way. Because underneath the surface what-ifs are much worse ones.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“Some memories were harder to forget than others. Especially the painful ones.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“Because sometimes silence speaks much louder than words possibly could.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“This entire time I'd been thinking about where my home was. At first it was California, then Wisconsin. But in truth, home isn't necessarily where you sleep at night.
It's where you feel like yourself.
Where you're most comfortable.
Where you don't have to pretend, where you can just be you.
I had finally reached that place because Macallan is home to me.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“I would’ve blown away every last runner that time. Because at the end of this finish line wasn’t a trophy — it was Macallan.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“But that's the thing with the -what if game- you really never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way. Because underneath the surface what-ifs are much worse ones.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“Sin embargo, es que tu hogar no tiene porque ser un lugar donde duermes por las noches.
Tu hogar esta donde sientes que puedes ser tu mismo.
Donde estas a gusto.
Donde no tienes que fingir, donde te muestras tal como eres.
Por fin había llegado a aquel lugar, porque Macallan es mi hogar.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“One play does not a team or victory make.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“But would a high school romance really be worth sacrificing our friendship? No. We were better off friends.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“But that's the thing with the what-if game-- you really can never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
“-En una escala del uno al diez, ¿hasta que punto te molestaba que fuera al baile con otro?
-Infinito”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, quote from Better off Friends
Elizabeth Eulberg
Born place: Portage, Wisconsin, The United States
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“Avantika: 'Do I look happy when I am asleep?'
Deb: 'Yes, you do.'
Avantika: 'Then I'm sure I'm dreaming about you'...
These little things are what make my life worth living.”
― Durjoy Datta, quote from If It's Not Forever. It's Not Love.
“Our stories don't make their homes in heavy books. We hold our stories in our songs.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from Home of the Brave
“That it is kindness that makes you rich.”
― Rebecca Wells, quote from The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder
“I’m so busy doing what I must do that I don’t have time for what I ought to do . . . and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!” “Son, that’s universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. Which is right now.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from Citizen of the Galaxy
“committing suicide, both for your own sake and that of your companions. Both sexually and socially the polar explorer must make up his mind to be starved. To what extent can hard work, or what may be called dramatic imagination, provide a substitute? Compare our thoughts on the march; our food dreams at night; the primitive way in which the loss of a crumb of biscuit may give a lasting sense of grievance. Night after night I bought big buns and chocolate at a stall on the island platform at Hatfield station, but always woke before I got a mouthful to my lips; some companions who were not so highly strung were more fortunate, and ate their phantom meals. And the darkness, accompanied it may be almost continually by howling blizzards which prevent you seeing your hand before your face. Life in such surroundings is both mentally and physically cramped; open-air exercise is restricted and in blizzards quite impossible, and you realize how much you lose by your inability to see the world about you when you are out-of-doors. I am told that when confronted by a lunatic or one who under the influence of some great grief or shock contemplates suicide, you should take that man out-of-doors and walk him about: Nature will do the rest. To normal people like ourselves living under abnormal circumstances Nature could do much to lift our thoughts out of the rut of everyday affairs, but she loses much of her healing power when she cannot be seen, but only felt, and when that feeling is intensely uncomfortable. Somehow in judging polar life you must discount compulsory endurance; and find out what a man can shirk, remembering always that it is a sledging life which”
― quote from The Worst Journey in the World
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