Eric Lindstrom > Quotes

“I've been hearing a lot about standing in front of trains. You know I certainly would if it came down to it; I just think it would be better for all of us if we didn't have to.”
― Eric Lindstrom

“Seeing is not believing”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“Awww," I interrupt him with my sweet voice. "You figured that out because you just heard someone say it. And I know your name for the very same reason. Douchebag isn't very nice, though, so I'll just call you D.B."

"I'm--"

"Shhh..." I shake my head. "Don't ruin it.”
― Eric Lindstrom

“You're not bipolar, Mel. You have a bipolar disorder. You also have vibrant blue eyes, a wonderful personality, a tendency to undervalue yourself, and many, many other things. None of those things are you."

"What am I, then?"

"A person who changes and grows all the time.”
― Eric Lindstrom, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful

“That's what love is, Marissa. It's not magic or voodoo. It's real. You can explain it. I an tell you exactly why I love Sarah." I hold my hand out and, thank God, Sarah gently interlaces her fingers with mine. 'I had lots of friends when I was little but by the time I turned eight they were mostly gone. It turns out blind Parker with a dead mom wasn't nearly as much fun as she was before the accident. I couldn't run around and play and I cried all the time and knocked over everything and turned into a royal bitch and one by one my friends disappeared until there were only two left. I'm not saying they were the only one who understood me or were nice, just that they were the ones who didn't go off and find easier people to be friends with. I love Sarah because she's been my best fiend and stayed that way when it got really really hard to be my friend at all.”
― Eric Lindstrom

“He still looks at you like he used to, even before you got together, like you're the most important thing in the word. Like if you were trapped on railroad tracks he'd break every finger to get you free without even noticing...and if he couldn't, he'd sit on the tracks and hold your hand and watch you instead of the train.”
― Eric Lindstrom

“She has impossibly high standards.'
'So do you.'
'Yeah, well, not impossibly high. Someone did come along who meets them.'
'Your problem is thinking no one else ever will.”
― Eric Lindstrom

“Being in love with someone who doesn't love you back is a tragedy. A fantasy is having someone understand the real you and love you anyway.”
― Eric Lindstrom, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful

“I don't feel like I'm winning anything.""Battles are never won. Only survived.”
― Eric Lindstrom, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful

“She said she wasn’t worried about labels. I said that was both wise and foolish. She agreed. “What”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“It's amazing how people can be so blind to what's good for them and what isn't, what's truth and what's not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known.”
― Eric Lindstrom

“And this might sound strange but part of why I love her so much is that I don't take it for granted. I don't like to admit it but whenever I put my hand out a part of me worries that maybe she's not going to be there this time, that she's finally sick of all my selfishness and drama...' Sarah squeezes my hand tightly and presses her temple on my shoulder. '...and that's why I freaked out, but then she's always there for me and I'm so goddamn grateful I wonder what I could have possibly done to deserve her. If you want to know what a soul mate is, Marissa, that's it. Sarah's my soul mate. I would stand in front of a train for her, and I love her because she'd do it for me too.”
― Eric Lindstrom

“There's nothing in it ", I say
"Sure there is." He squeezes. "People are full of things you don't know but that dosen't mean they're secrets; you just don't know everything yet." He lets go. " And that's good, otherwise you'd have no reason to talk anymore.”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“People don’t change. They just learn from experience and become better actors.”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“People are full of things you don't know but that doesn't mean they're secrets; you just don't know everything yet.' He lets go. 'And that's good, otherwise you'd have no reason to talk anymore.”
― Eric Lindstrom

“Truth isn’t happiness; it’s just truth.”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“Everyone has secrets, Parker. Everyone is a secret.”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“You don’t get to say these things to me anymore.”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“I love you, Parker. You’re my sister. No, better than that; real sisters you’re stuck with—we’re sisters because we want to be.” I”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“Because no one can know anybody, really. Not completely.”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“Regel 1: Neem me niet in de maling. Nooit. Zeker niet door misbruik te maken van mijn blindheid. Helemaal niet in het openbaar.”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“Maybe heaven isn't about getting everything ypu want." Connor says. "Maybe it's about not wanting anything anymore and being happy about it.”
― Eric Lindstrom, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful

“She has impossibly high standards.”
“So do you.”
“Yeah, well not impossibly high. Someone did come along who meets them.”
“Your problem is thinking no one else ever will.”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“You liking different things is fine. It's no fun talking to a mirror.”
― Eric Lindstrom, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful

“Sometimes I wish I knew what I was going to say in time to decide not to.”
― Eric Lindstrom, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful

“It’s amazing how people can be so blind to what’s good for them and what isn’t, what’s truth and what’s not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known.”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“I know why I'm so sure of everything all the time; it's because I can't stomach the alternative, that I can't be sure of anything ever.”
― Eric Lindstrom

“Getting to know people quickly is a perk of avoiding small talk.”
― Eric Lindstrom, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful

“Did he realize I didn’t recognize his voice? Or did he just know I wouldn’t talk to him, smooth as glass? I”
― Eric Lindstrom, Not If I See You First

“Hapiness, he said, was like the lights in your house, running on electricity generated by the good things in life. Unhappy people have dark houses without electricity, and they sometimes put candles in their windows to hide their sadness from others, but not Nolan. He said he had a bicycle in his head, attached to an electric generator, and he could imagine pedaling it whenever he wanted to power his real happiness lights.”
― Eric Lindstrom, A Tragic Kind of Wonderful