Quotes from book

Along for the Ride

“So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.”

“The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.”

“Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.”

“…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?”

“It’s still a memory worth having, even if it’s not exactly what you imagined”

“Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative."

"Which is?"

"Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?”

“What defines you isn’t how many times you
crash, but the number of times you get back.”

“call it chicken salad”

“This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of me.”

“It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car.
"Most things are”

“Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside”

“It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.”

“Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie”

“You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of."
Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake."
"Sure you do."
"I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those."
"Yeah? Prove it.”

“Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.”

“It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”

“When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.”

“It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.”

“It's not always easy being her daughter.'

I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”