Jennifer E. Smith Quotes

Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?

~ Jennifer E. Smith

People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy,” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label -- full count, earned run, perfect game -- and there's a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There's no room for confusion and Ryan wishes now that everything could be so straightforward. But then Nick pulls her closer, and she rests her head on his chest, and nothing seems more important that this right here.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.

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But it was different, somehow, to be reading it here, where the actual events had taken place all those hundreds of thousands of years ago. That was the thing about books, she was realizing; they could take you somewhere else entirely, it was true. But it wasn't the same thing as actually going there yourself.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

It had always been the two of them through everything -every adventure and every expedition- and now there was this awful distance between them, and she tried not to think about all the stories they were missing out on, all the litle moments and bigger milestones that had happened over the past few weeks without the other knowing

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of the world wouldn't match up to his dreams.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.

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She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

I might not say it, but I obviously show you how I feel,” she says. “Why do the words have to be so important?”“They just are,” he says, standing up and brushing off the back of his jeans. “Not because you’re saying them, but because you’re not.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

You could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret-by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

No matter how long it’s been or how far you’ve drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two people in the world whose job it was to see you, to find you, to recognize you and reel you back in. No matter what.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if you do that same thing twice, you're on your own.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

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.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

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

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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.

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and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really was -- a nerdy bookworm, a happy loner -- and move on.

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...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.

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Because even this --being so close to her --was no longer the same. That light he'd felt when he first saw her --he understood now that it was only a lightbulb. It was quick and easy, full of electricity, but there was something artificial about it. What he wanted was fire: heat and spark and flame.

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Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people.

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Here. There. Everywhere. Somewhere. Home.

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

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But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now. And that's something Hadley can understand, too, and so after a moment she nods in agreement, and he tips the suitcase forward onto it's wheels, and they begin to walk.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags

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Clare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she's most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were no more words, all that was left were two faintly beating hearts.

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Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possibly be, a calculation so simple for something as complicated as heartbreak.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

~ Jennifer E. Smith