Quotes from book

Every Day

“I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.”

“I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.”

“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”

“You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”

“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”

“Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

“Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.”

“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.”

“And it doesn’t even matter if it’s true or not. What matters is that I feel it, and believe it.”

“Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.”

“I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.”

“The world, right now, is only us.”

“It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.”

“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.”

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.”

“I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.”

“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”

“But he can also be incredibly sweet. And I know that, deep down, I mean the world to him." "Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

“Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.”