Quotes from book

Along for the Ride

“This true difference in me now: I had these experiances, these tales, more of this life. So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.”

“… You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.”

“Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?”

“And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.”

“I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.”

“Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.”

“its been a long night" "aren't they all?”

“Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.”

“Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.”

“Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour.”

“The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.
-Heidi”

“People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less”

“Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.”

“It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride”

“You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther”

“Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.”

“We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.”

“Just because something’s damaged doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be treated with respect”

“What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?”