256 Quotes by Jennifer E. Smith

And like every ending, it was a strange mix of exuberance and sorrow.

They weren’t so much a constellation, the five of them, as a series of scattered stars.

Now his story has shifted. He’s no longer the underdog. Instead he’s suddenly the luckiest guy in the room, in the school, maybe even in the whole city. He’s the luckiest guy anybody knows, and there’s no need to root for someone like that to win. Because guys like that – lucky guys, fortunate guys – they don’t need any support. And the audience knows it.

How long could a single night really be expected to last? How far could you stretch such a small collection of minutes? He was just a boy on a roof. She was just a girl in an elevator.

Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent more likely to meet again?

It’s not easy, you know? To get the thing you want most in the world in the worst way possible.

Sometimes it seemed as if his whole life was an exercise in waiting; not waiting to leave, exactly, but simply waiting to go. He felt like one of those fish that had the capacity to grow in unimaginable ways if only the tank were big enough. But his tank had always been small, and as much as he loved his home- as much as he loved his family- he’d always felt himself bumping up against the edges of his own life.

He hadn’t realized how much it could mean, having someone to talk to like that; he hadn’t realized that it could be a kind of lifeline, and that without it, there would be nobody to save you if you started to drown.

Airports are torture chambers if you’re claustrophobic.