Sarah Everett > Quotes

“Was” or “am”? What is the word for things you were and no longer are but always will be?”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“Their new normal will be something that won’t include me.”
― Sarah Everett, No One Here Is Lonely

“Addie, letting you believe that you weren't strong enough was one thing- and it was wrong- but the biggest lie is that there are things that aren't survivable. That there are things not worth surviving. I never, ever want you to believe that. That you can't keep going or that you can't overcome the thing you're facing”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“A flustered-looking woman hurries after him, but he doesn’t stop. I turn around to watch, silently rooting the kid on. I want to crouch down beside him and tell him to use the tunnel, to keep flying through the dark while he’s still allowed. “When’s the last time we did that?” I ask Lacey when we reach my car, and she shrugs. Then I’m starting the car and tears prick the backs of my eyes and I hate that so many Lasts happen when you aren’t paying attention.”
― Sarah Everett, No One Here Is Lonely

“Our eyes meet and flicker away from each other again, and because I'm in the process of being devastated, I don't tell him I agree with him. That I think love wake people up. Even the idea of it. Even the whisper of the idea of it.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“But what if the only reason I ever do anything brave is because someone makes me?”
― Sarah Everett, No One Here Is Lonely

“I grew up feeling fearless, hanging upside down in Avery Park, running just a little faster than my own heartbeat.”
― Sarah Everett, No One Here Is Lonely

“I cave when things get hard. I prefer to live vicariously, to live other people's stories because I am not brave enough to live my own. That is who I am.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“All along, I remembered her wanting me to be the best, always the best, but somehow I forgot that she still loved me when I wasn’t.”
― Sarah Everett, No One Here Is Lonely

“I’m most afraid of the silence.
Of the space that is left by all the lives and people and things I can’t hold on to. I don’t know what makes them disappear, or where they disappear to. Only that the feeling terrifies me.”
― Sarah Everett

“Of the space that is left by all the lives and people and things I can’t hold on to. I don’t know what makes them disappear, or where they disappear to. Only that the feeling terrifies me”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“Music, unless you write it, is always vicarious. It's written by a composer in a particular manner with a particular style. It's somebody else's story, and even if you can relate to tor find yourself in it or hide yourself in it, it doesn't belong to you.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“Romance is great and all, but friendship is every bit as miraculous and special.”
― Sarah Everett, Some Other Now: A Heartbreaking YA Romance of Two Brothers, Fake Dating, and Finding Family

“I guess what I don’t understand is love, and the way it can have so many different shapes. I don’t understand how it starts, and maybe I am not good at telling when it ends either.”
― Sarah Everett, The Shape of Lost Things

“I liked that its sound was tinged with a trace of sadness and that the pockets of space between the notes were so deep, it sounded like you could hide entire worlds in there.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“But most of the time, people are doing completely mundane things and just making them seem better with their enthusiasm. It's all in how you sell the story.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“They felt like small days. But I’m starting to think that all small days add up to Big Days.”
― Sarah Everett, The Shape of Lost Things

“A letter from the great-grandson.” He shakes his head sadly. “Sweet boy, but I don’t know how he’s going to make it through school with that name. Eustace .”

“Maybe he’ll go by a nickname,” I offer, but Ernie isn’t going for it. “What sort of nickname? Eu? Stace?” He folds the letter and gingerly sets it on the coffee table in front of him. “Ah, well. His mother says she labored with him for two and a half days, so he deserves it.”
― Sarah Everett, Some Other Now: A Heartbreaking YA Romance of Two Brothers, Fake Dating, and Finding Family