Eleanor Wells > Quotes

“Why did you only use one color?” Mrs. Quincy asked.

“Because it’s monochromatic,” Allison, at six years old, proudly announced.

“And what did you draw?”

“It’s me,” Allison said. “When I’m all grown up.”

“On top of the world?”

“Yes,” Allison said.”
― Eleanor Wells, I've Been Here Before: and other stories

“But what if I want another shot? I want to go back to my life.”
― Eleanor Wells, Our Lifelong Dreams

“I’d been in a few movies people saw. She was Olive Sherman.”
― Eleanor Wells, Fairytale

“He gave me a reassuring smile, but his hand shook. I gave it a tight squeeze, realizing that I was anchoring him just as much as he was anchoring me.”
― Eleanor Wells, All Our Yesterdays

“It wouldn't have been worth it. I can live without a car. I can't live without music.”
― Eleanor Wells, Deadheads

“We’re family, and family sticks together.”
― Eleanor Wells, Fairytale

“We really think this band could be something. But we can’t do it without you.”
― Eleanor Wells, Our Lifelong Dreams

“Robby would find someone else. He’d marry her, cut his hair, get some office job and have a nice, quiet life. Maybe, someday, he’d tell his kids about the girl he used to know.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories

“She watches as he joins a group of friends. Maybe he’ll stop, bring them over, and introduce her. They’ll drink a few beers, and she’ll have a decent time. Maybe even laugh. By then, she’ll have forgotten about why she came.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories

“In her mind, she’d meet the love of her life by 21, have an Oscar by 24, married with a kid on the way, and living in the Hollywood Hills by now. Instead she was facing down the barrel of thirty with no sense of where her life was going or if any of it had meant anything at all. There had been short films, plays, and extra work dotted throughout her soul-sucking office job and rejections so severe that she wondered what the point of living even was.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories

“The pictures hadn’t done its grandeur justice. In that moment, she ached for the park that had been lost on that terrible day. This really had been a place of joy. It must have been.”
― Eleanor Wells, I've Been Here Before: and other stories

“She was nervous about facing everyone she used to know and fielding questions about why she’d quit even though it was obvious they never really wanted her. There’d been a simple, unbridled joy she’d found in skating when she was young. Competing seemed to tear away at that.”
― Eleanor Wells, The End of All Things

“There was always the thought in the back of my mind that Dad could see me in something when he was in New York. I almost welcomed the scenario. Him, sitting feet from me, seeing the woman I’d become. I’d stare right into his eyes, and he’d know there was nothing he could do but walk away.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories

“I looked back at the road. In the darkness, I couldn’t see anything beyond the filling station. A part of me thought I’d cease to exist if I drove any further.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories

“Allison would walk through sometimes, admire all the dogs, and imagine the one she’d get once she’d set down roots.”
― Eleanor Wells, Our Lifelong Dreams

“I felt really small that night, like I was only a small piece in the grand scheme of the universe.”
― Eleanor Wells, Fairytale

“I think that was the first time I’d really noticed him. There was a vulnerability to his soul underneath the cool and confident exterior.”
― Eleanor Wells, All Our Yesterdays

“In my first freshman seminar, they told us that history gives us the ability to look forward. For me, I see it as always trying to capture the intangible fog of something I know I will never be a part of.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories

“It’s all the same: the white cabinets, the watercolor prints, and the woodcut by the door that says “so much life in one little world” in blue cursive script.”
― Eleanor Wells

“Cole’s mouth tightened into a line. “Whenever I think about my future, about everything that’s next, in my mind you’re always by my side.”
― Eleanor Wells

“There was one of Cole on stage with his guitar, unmistakable. The blurry quality of the photo made it all the more real, more raw and unfiltered, like a genuine moment in life and not something produced.”
― Eleanor Wells, All Our Yesterdays

“Now I remember. That’s right, it was June. My birthday was in July. I was going to be twenty-five.”
“You were going to leave the band?” Mason prompts.
“I told Felix that being a quarter of a century old meant I was going to have to rethink my life.”
― Eleanor Wells, Our Lifelong Dreams

“Rose, we have a lot in common,” Cailey said to her. “I think we’re going to be great friends.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories

“If only she could remember how to do it. Of course she could. She shook her body, closed her eyes, and let herself glide. Then, she twirled up into the air.

Not just once or twice, but three times.

She landed with a beaming smile.”
― Eleanor Wells, I've Been Here Before: and other stories

“I always thought the British had it better. They drank tea and spoke in such an elegant dialect that their problems couldn’t have been severe.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories

“My favorite character is Éowyn, and when I’m in the Olympics one day, I’m going to dress like her and do a routine to this music.”
― Eleanor Wells, The End of All Things

“It’s so quiet and serene up that I might as well have driven into another world. I can’t help but look at the city below and think of everyone going about their lives while people like Kerry Gold exist on another plane, creating art to help the plebeians forget about the humdrum of the every day.”
― Eleanor Wells, Fairytale

“In New York, it felt like you could live here your entire life and there was always the chance you’d discover something new.”
― Eleanor Wells, All Our Yesterdays

“As they continued back and forth, I turned away, trying to hide the red flush of embarrassment on my face. I picked up the glass unicorn—in actuality, a plastic figurine. It was such a beautiful, unique thing. I could see why Laura loved it.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories

“Every time I think I’ve had enough, I see something that inspires me to keep going. A little flash of… something beautiful, here or there. A gold leaf in a sea of red and yellow ones. That first sip of coffee… the memory of what it was like to be loved by another person… being out here… far away from it all.”
― Eleanor Wells, This Time Tomorrow: and other stories