Adi Alsaid > Quotes

“Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“People hurt each other. It happens to everyone. Intentionally, unintentionally, regretfully or not. It's a part of what we do as people. The beauty is that we have the ability to heal and forgive.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“Seize the Tuesday.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“So it's pretty simple. Go sing. Sing well or sing badly -it doesn't matter, as long as you sing your fucking heart out.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and yanking you out into reality, smells enter your dreams with a silent knock and a polite "Excuse me?”
― Adi Alsaid

“To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“And maybe the only way to find what you’re looking for is to get lost along the way.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“Leave the world a little better than you found it.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“Well, everyone needs at least one long road trip in their lives.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“How do text messages make you feel existential?

I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken than they are, or funnier, smarter. I start thinking that no one in the world is who they say the are, then my mind goes to how I also edit myself, not just online but in real life, except for those rare instances like right now where I'm ranting- even though that's a lie because I've had this train of thought before and damned if I didn't tweak it in my head a few times to make it sound better- and then my mind starts racing so furiously I can't control my thoughts, and I start thinking about robots and wondering if I'm even a real person.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“I hate technology. It provides so many different channels of loneliness. Every time you check your email and don’t see a new message, you know that, even though people have the ability to contact you at any time of the day from anywhere on the planet, no one is interested in doing so. Phones are constant reminders that 160 people you know fairly well have nothing to say to you most of the time.”
― Adi Alsaid, Somewhere Over the Sun

“Love traveled, it ran, it covered ground, eager to see more, do more. It was two people keeping pace with each other.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“I don't really ever have to tell myself to seize the day. It's just, whenever I'm not, I feel like I'm slowly disintegrating or something. Like my soul is itching, and if I don't actively live my life, it'll never stop.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“I'm a pretty forgetful guy, but everything she says, I remember. I remember what colour her hair ribbon was when we met on the first day of fifth grade. I remember that she loves orchids because they look delicate but aren't, really. From a single postcard she sent me when traveling with her family two summers ago. I remember what my name looks like in her handwriting.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“When you don't have any reason to think of days as weekdays or weekends, you start to realize that all days are pretty much the same. And that kind of gives you the freedom to do whatever you want. It's a lot easier to seize the day than it is to seize a Tuesday. You have errands on Tuesday. On Tuesday you eat pizza again. Your favorite show is on Tuesday, you know? But the day... The day is all just hours you're alive for. They can be filled with anything. Unexpectedness, wildness, maybe a little bit of lawlessness, even. If that makes sense.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“I'm usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven't been to before, so it's a way to not look weird. If I find something I've read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“A native tongue, in my opinion, isn't the language spoken where you were born or the first language you learned; it's a language that makes you feel at home. It's a language that you don't command, but that commands you. And without it, you'd feel lost, unsure of how to express to the world everything you care enough to express.”
― Adi Alsaid

“It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past. It was time to go home.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“Love was lazy as hell.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“Love was lazy as hell. Love laid around in bed, warm from the sheets and the sunlight pouring into the room. Love was too lazy to get up to close the blinds. Love was too comfortable to get up and go pee. Love took too many naps, it watched TV, but not really, because it was too busy kissing and napping. Love was also funny, which somehow made the bed more comfortable, the laughter warming the sheets, softening the mattress and the lovers’ skin.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind of girl who could make you think your life was not complete unless she was in it.”
― Adi Alsaid, Let's Get Lost

“Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if it’s a particularly good sentence, a sentence with truth or beauty or humor or sadness to it. The best ones always take you by surprise. They sneak into your head while you’re walking down the aisles at a supermarket, or flat-out assault you when you’re at your grandmother’s funeral, and you have to scramble to give the thought life before it’s gone forever. Cocktail napkins, palms, text messages sent to yourself.”
― Adi Alsaid, Somewhere Over the Sun