58 Quotes by Adi Alsaid

I’m a pretty forgetful guy, but everything she says, I remember. I remember what colour her hair ribbon was when we met on the first day of fifth grade. I remember that she loves orchids because they look delicate but aren’t, really. From a single postcard she sent me when traveling with her family two summers ago. I remember what my name looks like in her handwriting.

If we all die and our lives are forgotten, it is these conservations that make an impression on the deletable history of the world.

Human beings are more or less formulas. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely. Just like things are rarely always true or never true, we aren’t ever exactly one thing or another. We are more or less.

Love was lazy as hell.

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don’t know what the other side looks like.

I’ve heard you talk about this town like it’s the only thing you love aside from fixing cars. People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you is going to take it away from you.

When you don’t have any reason to think of days as weekdays or weekends, you start to realize that all days are pretty much the same. And that kind of gives you the freedom to do whatever you want. It’s a lot easier to seize the day than it is to seize a Tuesday.

But you know what I mean, don’t you? How sometimes you feel like you’re the only person in the world who is seeing something?

And maybe the only way to find what you’re looking for is to get lost along the way.