“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need—love is all there is.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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, quote from Second Chance Summer
“The thing is that people only get hurt—really hurt—when they’re trying to play it safe. That’s when people get injured, when they pull back at the last second because they’re scared. They hurt themselves and other people.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“Just because you'd left something behind didn't mean that it had gone anywhere.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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, quote from Second Chance Summer
“What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for my real night to begin—my time with my family just something to get through as quickly as possible. And now that I knew that the time we had together was limited, I was holding on to it, trying to stretch it out, all the while wishing I’d appreciated what I’d had earlier.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“Love isn't all we need--love is all there is.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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, quote from Second Chance Summer
“You can always find your way out, no matter how lost you are.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“(And believe me, you don't want me to be unhappy. I may be looking into the haunting thing right now.)”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“maybe Lucy was wrong - maybe sometimes there was such a thing as perfect moment.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“Did you ever have a night that just...seemed to change everything? And everything is different afterward?”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“I leaned closer to look at it, at all those empty squares that represented the days of summer ahead.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“It seemed crazy that something so big, so seemingly permanent, could be knocked down by a little wind and rain.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“After dinner, out of nowhere, it started to rain. It caught me off guard, and seeing the world that had only been sunny and warm transformed by a sudden thunderstorm was jarring, a reminder of just how quickly things could change.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“I tried to think of puns that might make my father laugh one more time, and I looked at the stars.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“She seemed to still be completely unaware that Elliot was pining openly for her and messing up customers' orders as a result. And the one time I'd tried to hint to her that there might be dating prospects with someone she already knew, someone she was friends with, she'd thought I was trying to set her up with Warren, and things had briefly gotten very uncomfortable.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“But how do you know they're not going to matter? Unless you give it a shot?”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“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, quote from Second Chance Summer
“But you have a heart that is big and beautiful and strong, and deserves to be shared with someone worthy. You get some perspective when you know you’re not going to get to flip a new month on the calendar. And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need—love is all there is.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“Just like that, those butterflies I'd first felt at twelve made a reappearance.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
“It was a kiss that was both familiar and brand-new, making me remember a kiss from five years ago, and making me feel like I'd never been kissed before in my life.”
― Morgan Matson, quote from Second Chance Summer
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“The workers went along with the Nazis, the Church stood by and watched, the middle classes were too cowardly to do anything, and so were the leading intellectuals. We allowed the unions to be abolished, the various religious denominations to be suppressed, there was no freedom of speech in the press or on the radio. Finally we let ourselves be driven into war. We were content for Germany to do without democratic representation and put up with pseudo-representation by people with no real say in anything. Ideals can’t be betrayed with impunity, and now we must all take the consequences.”
― Władysław Szpilman, quote from The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
“I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it.”
― Thomas à Kempis, quote from The Imitation of Christ
“Strength and weakness are tangled things,” the Aven Essen had said. “They look so much alike, we often confuse them, the way we confuse magic and power.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from A Gathering of Shadows
“One conceivable way to discriminate between a scientific intellectual and a literary intellectual is by considering that a scientific intellectual can usually recognize the writing of another but that the literary intellectual would not be able to tell the difference between lines jotted down by a scientist and those by a glib nonscientist. This is even more apparent when the literary intellectual starts using scientific buzzwords, like “uncertainty principle,” “Godel’s theorem,” “parallel universe,” or “relativity,” either out of context or, as often, in exact opposition to the scientific meaning. I suggest reading the hilarious Fashionable Nonsense by Alan Sokal for an illustration of such practice (I was laughing so loudly and so frequently while reading it on a plane that other passengers kept whispering things about me).”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, quote from Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
“Good because I want you too. Now. Forever. Just you”
― Abbi Glines, quote from The Vincent Boys
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