Quotes from book

Second Glance

“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

“I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.”

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”

“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”

“Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.”

“What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?”

“When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.”

“And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall”

“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”

“Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.”

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”