Quotes from book

Every Day

“It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.”

“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.”

“It’s okay,” I tell her.
“It is okay to be happy”

“She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.”

“A sound waiting to be a word.”

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”

“I have become very good at clearing histories.”

“No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.”

“Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”

“Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.”

“When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.”

“I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.”

“As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.”

“If other people see you differently, you’ll end up seeing them differently, too.”

“I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”

“Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.”

“These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are.”

“I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.”