Quotes from book

The Truth About Forever

“If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.”

“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”

“It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.”

“If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.”

“it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics…”

“None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.”

“Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving me astounded, amazed, and most of all, alive.”

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

“I'd wanted a real kiss, something to remember, but i'd long ago learned not to be picky with farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a goodbye at all.”

“Fine just fine.”

“Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing… it is twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wish would last and last”

“Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.”

“But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”

“Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over…”

“What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?”

“How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.”

“It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.”

“But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.”

“This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.”