140 Quotes by Rebecca Stead

Maybe it should just make you feel lucky. Yeah, you were really lucky you didn’t die after the accident. But you were a lot luckier to be born in the first place. So if you’re here for a reason, maybe we all are.

Her lids tremble and her eyeballs look like they might disappear into her head.

I think that when you don’t know, you should just wait until you do.

Good morning!’ Mom was standing in front of the stove, making bacon. ‘Annemarie, I called your dad last night, and he told me that you have a thing for bacon omelettes.’ ‘Yum!’ Annemarie said. ‘That smells great. No wonder I’m so hungry.’ I was staring. Mom had serious bed head and her eyes were puffy with sleep. But she was up at seven-thirty in the morning, making us bacon omelettes. I wanted to hug her. But didn’t.

He nodded like he felt sorry for me and my stupid brain. ‘I think that’s probably because of your common sense. You can’t accept the idea of arriving before you leave, the idea that every moment is happening at the same time, that it’s us who are moving – ’ Enough was enough.

There are people who will try to make you choose between who you are and who they want you to be. You have to watch out for those people.

Tab’s mom said that when people reached out to hurt your feelings, it was because they secretly felt they deserved to be talked to that way. She said that they had ‘long, hard roads ahead’ and that you should just wish them well.

Sometimes your body feels like a cage for all the stuff inside. You paint your nails, braid your hair, and buy the right kind of jeans, but none of it is really about you.

The guy is looney,’ Belle said thoughtfully, ’but also generally polite. Polite is always worth something.