Jen Malone > Quotes

“Likeyoubye”
― Jen Malone, Wanderlost: A Young Adult Love Story of European Adventure and Finding Yourself

“It’s a free-choice afternoon and I choose you.”
― Jen Malone, Wanderlost: A Young Adult Love Story of European Adventure and Finding Yourself

“A hug is just a strangle you haven't finished yet”
― Jen Malone, Wanderlost: A Young Adult Love Story of European Adventure and Finding Yourself

“The second hardest part about growing up is trying to figure out who you are. The hardest part comes after you've figured it out and the rest of the world wants to pull you in a different direction.”
― Jen Malone, Map to the Stars

“Loveyoubye”
― Jen Malone, Wanderlost: A Young Adult Love Story of European Adventure and Finding Yourself

“And you can’t miss what you don’t know. Except . . .” I lean forward so that I’m facing her. “What if we were wrong?”
― Jen Malone, Wanderlost: A Young Adult Love Story of European Adventure and Finding Yourself

“Somewhere along the line, the crazy youth hostelers I kept seeing everywhere stopped looking so crazy.”
― Jen Malone, Wanderlost: A Young Adult Love Story of European Adventure and Finding Yourself

“The thing is, this trip is forcing me to get to know myself more than I've ever had to at home, where everything is comfortable and easy.”
― Jen Malone

“I'm in love. Again. How on earth do people pick a favorite travel spot?”
― Jen Malone, Wanderlost: A Young Adult Love Story of European Adventure and Finding Yourself

“I love when I get to introduce someone to something amazing.”
― Jen Malone, Wanderlost: A Young Adult Love Story of European Adventure and Finding Yourself

“...now I understand that if I'm forced to accept the positively worst things imaginable can actually happen... it means I have no choice but to also believe the best possible things can.

And I am here for those. We all are.”
― Jen Malone

“Isn't that what the process of making the art is for, to reveal yourself who you truly are? Let the blank page whisper to you.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“Unanswered questions leave more room for possibilities.
-Maybe/Maybe Not Dying Girl”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“And if you have curiousity, you have everything: 1. It's nearly impossible for you to be bored. 2. You'll be a lifelong learner. 3. You'll probably be a traveler. 4. You'll definitely be an empathetic person, because you'll want to learn people's stories and what makes them tick.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“I'm totally up for adventure anytime, anyplace, but having somewhere familiar to curl up afterward is key.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“Undecided' sounds terrible; I hate uncertainty. This doesn't feel like drifitng aimlessly to me though, because I have a solid plan. It just happens to be a plan to try everything, like a big ol' college buffet. One helping of Anthropology of Food, one side of Introduction to Oceanography, one spoonful of History of Opera... I think it's more like 'overdecided'.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“What's the boss of us?"
"Courage!"
"What's never the boss of us?"
"Fear!”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“sometimes when you love someone, you find ways to forgive the unforgivable.”
― Jen Malone, Map to the Stars

“I probably should have restrained myself. Graham had been perfectly normal all morning, but after an evening of dreaming up revenge scenarios, I couldn’t help myself when presented with such an easy opportunity. Besides, he had told me to get inventive. The “sandwich” I made Graham had six different types of meat including one mystery one, plus peanut butter, plus marshmallow spread, plus mayonnaise, hot sauce, and raisins. Graham”
― Jen Malone, Map to the Stars

“Now I know that you can soak your skin in starlight and scrub your lungs with noonday winds and trail your fingers through ombre sunrises and call yourself the granddaughter of the witches they couldn't burn, and none of that breath or beauty or blaze is ward or amulet.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“Because the harshest truth, the truth that's been there all the while, is that the worst thing you can ever imagine happening...? Some days it actually does.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“You know how it’s crazy embarrassing to watch a movie with your parents when a steamy love scene comes on? You basically wish the couch cushions would swallow you and suddenly the condition of your nail beds is far more interesting than what’s on the screen?”
― Jen Malone, Map to the Stars

“Fear is not the boss of me; courage is.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“I want you to steam out of the pressure cooker. By crying over sappyy videos, yes. The trick is, you can keep it from being personal; the tears don't have to be about you. You just have to release what's in there. Okay?

And then when we've cried all the tears, we switch to epic fail compilations and laugh our heads off.”
― Jen Malone, The Arrival of Someday

“can’t see her in the dark, but I know she’s looking at me when she says, “I know you’ve been kind of weird about Ryan and that’s why we didn’t use him for Mr. Vernon’s going-away party, but, Becs, you have to admit he’d be completely perfect for this. He has the hair and the accent and the guitar. The girls will totally eat him up.” She’s so right, but aaaaaaah. I’m way too embarrassed around Ryan. I mean, at least I learned my lesson and I’m not throwing myself at him anymore. No more bike crashes for me. The other day, he and Lance were in the line ahead of me, Sades, and Izzy at mini golf and when Lance asked us to join them, I was the one to say they should just go ahead so we could have girl time. I could tell Ryan was, like, ubershocked. His eyebrows were”
― Jen Malone, You're Invited