Morgan Matson Quotes

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

~ Morgan Matson

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

~ Morgan Matson

In a well-ordered universe...

~ Morgan Matson

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.

~ Morgan Matson

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.-Roger Sullivan

~ Morgan Matson

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?

~ Morgan Matson

As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here, facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running away from this, tired of not telling people, tired of not talking about it, tired of pretending things were okay when they had never, ever been less than okay.

~ Morgan Matson

And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.

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You + Mesaw this...AMERICAThank you for finding America with me

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Tomorrow will be better.”“But what if it’s not?” I asked.“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.

~ Morgan Matson

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.

~ Morgan Matson

When you move as much as I have...you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn't work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship used to be like, why you liked that person. And I hated it. And I just didn't want to do it again. Not with you.

~ Morgan Matson

As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running from this, tired of pretending that things were okay when they had never, ever been less okay.

~ Morgan Matson

I knew in that moment that things would be forever different- that today was gong to be the day that split my life into before and after.

~ Morgan Matson

I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for my real night to begin—my time with my family just something to get through as quickly as possible. And now that I knew that the time we had together was limited, I was holding on to it, trying to stretch it out, all the while wishing I’d appreciated what I’d had earlier.

~ Morgan Matson

It's always a risk. Wherever there is great emotion. because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.

~ Morgan Matson

It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.

~ Morgan Matson

I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.

~ Morgan Matson

We’re always all alone,” he said, his voice cracked and worn.Tamsin shook her head. She knew that wasn’t true. She had years of proof to the contrary. “No,” she said. “Not always. Noteven often.”“Oh,” the old man said, with a sigh that seemed to come from the depths of his being. “I forget you’re still young yet.” Hecoughed then, a dry, rattling sound. “Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends . . . butin the end, it’s just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It’s better, really, to learn it early. Thisway, you can save yourself some disappointment.” He sighed then and slumped back against the wall once more. “Becausebelieving you’re not alone is the cruelest trick of all.

~ Morgan Matson

And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.

~ Morgan Matson

Anyone else would have probably stayed put---or at least looked deeply uncomfortable, but Frank seemed like he was taking this in stride, like helping to reunite friends was just a normal thing he did.

~ Morgan Matson

Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them...But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.

~ Morgan Matson

It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- Leonard

~ Morgan Matson

It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.

~ Morgan Matson

I saw the statue completely different now. I'd decided that he wasn't pointing to anything or anyone. Now all I could see was that he was reaching out his hand to someone. For me that explained the expression on his face that I'd never quite been able to understand before. He was hopeful and nervous and scared and a little bit proud of himself for doing it - extending his hand to someone, not knowing if they'd take it. This was, I had realized, one of the scariest things of all, requiring much more courage than sailing across an ocean and landing on an unknown shore At least that's what I saw. Clark and Tom's new theory was that he was a time traveler who'd somehow been transported to the past and was just trying to hail a cab.

~ Morgan Matson

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

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And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.

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In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors.

~ Morgan Matson

You don't have to go away to know where your home is.

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You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.

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I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.

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...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...

~ Morgan Matson

It was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire.

~ Morgan Matson

I'll answer that.' He took a deep breath, and I could see his eyes searching mine, like he was looking for an answer. 'I had thought that was the ending,' he finally said. 'But I might have been wrong.''I was just thinking,' I said, sure that the rest of the crowd could probably hear how hard my heart was beating, since it seemed deafening to me, pounding in my ears, 'that maybe Marjorie realized she was in love with Karl. And told him that. And said she was sorry for being scared.

~ Morgan Matson

I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.

~ Morgan Matson

And when I started to cry as I pulled into my driveway,it was coming down hard enough that I could pretend that it was only the rain hitting my face, and not the fact that I'd just lost another friend.

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I know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.

~ Morgan Matson

We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again

~ Morgan Matson