256 Quotes by Jennifer E. Smith

When she finally says them, she wants it to be to the first, last, and only person. She wants it to count.

It’s time to move on, and the more time they spend wishing it were otherwise, the harder it will be to let go.

She could only hope that in a place filled with so many wonders, it would have still been possible to appreciate something as remarkable and ordinary as all this.

Look what a hard time I’ve given him. But no matter how many times I’ve pushed him away, he always comes back around again. And I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Maybe this was why Owen had been so desperate to travel, why she’d longed for it herself without ever really knowing why. It wasn’t just that you got to be somewhere else entirely. It was that you got to be someone else entirely, too.

Maybe the world isn’t full of signs so much as it’s full of people trying to use whatever evidence they can find to convince themselves of what they hope to be true.

Not everything can last. Not everything is supposed to mean something.

For a long time they just stay there like that, as still as the statues in the garden. And when he gives her no sign – no gestures of welcome, no indication of need – Hadley swallows hard and comes to a decision. But just as she turns to walk away she hears him behind her, the word like the opening of some door, like an ending and a beginning, like a wish. “Wait,” he says, and so she does.

I don’t have a smartphone... I have a very, very dumb phone. In fact, it’s kind of an idiot.