8 Quotes by Sarah Everett

A flustered-looking woman hurries after him, but he doesn’t stop. I turn around to watch, silently rooting the kid on. I want to crouch down beside him and tell him to use the tunnel, to keep flying through the dark while he’s still allowed. “When’s the last time we did that?” I ask Lacey when we reach my car, and she shrugs. Then I’m starting the car and tears prick the backs of my eyes and I hate that so many Lasts happen when you aren’t paying attention.

I grew up feeling fearless, hanging upside down in Avery Park, running just a little faster than my own heartbeat.

All along, I remembered her wanting me to be the best, always the best, but somehow I forgot that she still loved me when I wasn’t.

But what if the only reason I ever do anything brave is because someone makes me?

Their new normal will be something that won’t include me.

Addie, letting you believe that you weren’t strong enough was one thing- and it was wrong- but the biggest lie is that there are things that aren’t survivable. That there are things not worth surviving. I never, ever want you to believe that. That you can’t keep going or that you can’t overcome the thing you’re facing.

Of the space that is left by all the lives and people and things I can’t hold on to. I don’t know what makes them disappear, or where they disappear to. Only that the feeling terrifies me.

Our eyes meet and flicker away from each other again, and because I’m in the process of being devastated, I don’t tell him I agree with him. That I think love wake people up. Even the idea of it. Even the whisper of the idea of it.