256 Quotes by Jennifer E. Smith

And the geography of the thing – the geography of them – was completely and hopelessly wrong.

How many times can a life be split into a before and an after?

It’s just one more thing she hadn’t considered, and as the idea of it settles over her, she realizes again how entwined their lives are. They’re like two trees whose branches have grown together. Even if you pull them out by the trunks, they’re still going to be twisted and tangled and nearly impossible to separate at the roots.

Today was a day for sailing and drinking, for bobbing out under the blazing sun until the sky flipped over into dark and the fireworks were sent scribbling out over all of it.

Hadley didn’t know it was possible to miss someone who’s only a few feet away, but there it is.

Not everyone makes it fifty-two years, and if you do, it doesn’t matter that you once stood in front of all those people and said that you would. The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.

Just like when you’re young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.

She wondered if there was a word for loneliness that wasn’t quite so general.

He’d thought this was the start of something. But clearly she’d changed her mind, and he felt stunned by home quickly the whole thing had unraveled, the end coming before the beginning really even had a chance to begin.