Michelle Falkoff > Quotes

“People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. But they're saying it because they found it helpful when they lost someone. They mean well.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“If there's one thing I learned from the playlist, it's how important listening to people can be. I”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“You okay?” he asked.
“Doing great,” I said. Guess I was a liar after all.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“But loneliness is a thing that has weight, and it gets heavier over time.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“We both learn way more on our own than we do at school, and we're more interested in things we find for ourselves.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“..., and I went back to my old habit of walking the halls looking down most of the time. It was different now, though—before I’d done it without thinking, because I didn’t know another way. Now I was actively avoiding a life I knew might be out there. But it was my choice.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“Look, it’s true that I think there are a lot of people to blame for all of this, but I’m one of them.” For a second, my mind flashed back to the party, to the last words I’d ever said to him. Fuck you, Hayden. Some kind of best friend I was. “And it’s not my job to decide who should pay.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“everyone pretended to care but it was too late”
― Michelle Falkoff, A playlist de Hayden

“Lots of people want to be invisible. Maybe they even think they can pretend to be. But someone always sees." -Archmage_Ged-”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“If there's one thing I learned from the playlist, it's how important listening is to people can be.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“But I couldn’t block out the sound of his voice. “Hayden wasn’t the son I expected to have,” he said. “I’d imagined playing catch in the yard, watching football on the weekends, going fishing. The things I’d done with my dad; the things I do with Ryan. It was the only kind of relationship I knew how to have with a son.” His voice cracked. “But my second son didn’t enjoy any of those things. He loved music and video games and computers. I didn’t know how to talk to him. And now I’ll spend the rest of my life wishing I’d learned how.” He lowered his head, as if he were trying to hide the fact that he was crying.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“I would never understand how hurt and confused and hopeless he must have felt, to decide it wasn't worth trying, and I wasn't mad at him anymore for doing it...”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“One of the perks of having no friends was that no one was there to see you squirt condiments all over yourself.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“But loneliness is a thing that has weight, and it gets heavier over time,”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“I will never get over this. I know this to be true now, but I also know that not getting over it doesn’t mean I won’t someday be able to move on and live.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“Part of the reason I hated to think that I might be responsible was because things hadn’t gone down the way I would have wanted them to.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“I think we need to focus on the lives we’re living now. The dead live in our memories. And our dreams.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“Lots of people want to be invisible. Maybe they even think they can pretend to be. But someone always sees.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“Sometimes I worried myself with the possibility of feeling always alone how I feel nowadays”
― Michelle Falkoff, A playlist de Hayden

“I’d counted myself lucky to have made such a good friend, someone who made me stop feeling so lonely, and for years that was enough. Until it wasn’t anymore.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“People are going to say a lot of things. and some of it will be helpful and some of it will be
annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. but they're saying it because people said those things to them, or because they found it helpful when they lost someone they mean well.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“Maybe the problem was the whole idea of groups; as soon as more than two people got involved in anything, so many things could go wrong.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“But the whole point of living in a fantasy world was the fantasy, right?”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“There should be a word for the thing that reactivates guilt, the trigger that made my skin prickle and my ears turn red, that made my head almost involuntarily droop, that made my pulse race with anxiety, then slow back down when I realized nothing had actually happened.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“Maybe fourteen-year-olds can't slip even once or everything goes to sh*t, though I doubt it. But you're not fourteen anymore. You've been this model of discipline for years, but you're also missing out on big stuff. You have to trust yourself a little, let go of some control. Sometimes you have to choose between what's good for you and what might not be good for you but could really be amazing for you.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Questions I Want to Ask You: An Emotional YA Coming-of-Age Mystery About Family Secrets and Truth

“It shouldn’t have been shocking to me, to see who’d decided they had something to say at Hayden’s funeral. They were all starved for attention, and there wasn’t a chance they’d miss the opportunity to grab the spotlight, no matter what the occasion. But seriously, at a funeral? Were they really going to get up there and say nice things about Hayden, talk about how much they’d miss him, what a loss it would be for the school, the community? Did they have no sense of how much they’d contributed to the fact that we were all here in the first place?”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“If I've learned anything by working with the nutritionist this summer, it's that my relationship with food has been king of messed up for a long time. I've been using food as a means of control, but I've also been using it as a way of avoiding making my own decisions, letting other people tell me what it was okay to eat so I could just go along. I didn't believe I had the power to make good choices myself, or even to make the occasional bad choice and not have it be a catastrophe.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Questions I Want to Ask You: An Emotional YA Coming-of-Age Mystery About Family Secrets and Truth

“People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. But they're saying it because people said those things to them, or because they found it helpful when they lost someone. They mean well." -Mr. Beaumont-”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead

“Oh, you sweet sheltered thing,” she said. “You clearly have severely underdeveloped gaydar.”
― Michelle Falkoff, Playlist for the Dead