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Since You've Been Gone

Morgan Matson

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”

“I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”

“I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.”

“It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice”

“All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.”

“He looked right at me as he gave me a half smile. "You're the brightest thing in the room", he said. He lifted his hand from my waist, and slowly, carefully brushed a stray lock of hair from my cheek. "You shine". My breath caught in my throat. People said those kinds of things about Sloane-not about me. "What?" frank asked, his eyes on mine. "Just..." I took a shaky breath. "Nobody's ever said something like that to me." "Then they don't see what I see," he said.”

“4. Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.”

“In a well-ordered universe...”

“This felt like the way you get nervous right before something exciting happens-the moment when you're balanced on the top of the roller coaster, the hush before the surprise party, the second after the diving board but before the water, when you can close your eyes and imagine, for just a second, that you're flying. The feeling that good things were coming, almost here, any moment now.”

“And I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to”

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Book Keywords:

friendship, universe, life, friends

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