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“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“Saying good-bye is basically an invitation not to see a person again. It's making it okay for that to be the last conversation you have. So if you don't say it--if you leave the conversation open--it means you'll have to see them again." ~Roger Sullivan”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.
- Leonard”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need—love is all there is.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“You said you didn’t want to waste your time on people who aren’t going to matter,” I said, and he nodded. “But how do you know they’re not going to matter? Unless you give it a shot?”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“The thing is that people only get hurt—really hurt—when they’re trying to play it safe. That’s when people get injured, when they pull back at the last second because they’re scared. They hurt themselves and other people.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.
-Roger Sullivan”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Roger: "God, I've been wanting to do that for a long time."

Amy: "Really"

Roger: "Oh yes. Since Kansas. At least.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“He looked right at me as he gave me a half smile. "You're the brightest thing in the room", he said. He lifted his hand from my waist, and slowly, carefully brushed a stray lock of hair from my cheek. "You shine".

My breath caught in my throat. People said those kinds of things about Sloane-not about me.

"What?" frank asked, his eyes on mine.

"Just..." I took a shaky breath. "Nobody's ever said something like that to me."

"Then they don't see what I see," he said.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“I loved the idea that people could discover things. That you could be the person to see something first. Or see something that nobody else had been able to.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“This felt like the way you get nervous right before something exciting happens-the moment when you're balanced on the top of the roller coaster, the hush before the surprise party, the second after the diving board but before the water, when you can close your eyes and imagine, for just a second, that you're flying. The feeling that good things were coming, almost here, any moment now.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“And I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“Looking at it, I got, for the first time, why people would bring flowers to sick people, stuck inside the hospital with no way to get outside. It was like bringing them a little bit of the world that was going on without them.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they’re just determined to chase impossible things. And most of them are so busy looking at the horizon that they can’t even see what’s right in front of them.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Hey," he said smiling at me pulling off his sunglasses. "Did you get me something good?"
"I think so," I said trying to ignore how hard my heart was beating. Then before I could think about it or analyze or consider what I was doing I leaned over and kissed him.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“But one thing that I was learning about what happened when you stuck around—it usually seemed that other people were willing to stick by you as well.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“there was something about being alone in places that were usually filled with people that made them seem particularly empty when it was just you.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them. Columbus and America. Pinzón who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry when I was least expecting her."
I smiled back at him while feeling sharply just how much I was going to miss him. It was almost a physical pain. "I'm on that list?"
"You're at the top of that list." He leaned over and kissed me and I kissed back.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“He told me that if you yelled out "JAMBA!" at full volume, all the employees would yell back "JUICE!" He lied.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“And it was a kiss that felt like it could stop time.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“There weren‘t enough tears to cry.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“A man on a quest. A Don Quixote searching for his Dulcinea. But keep in mind my good friend, Don Quixote never found his Dulcinea, did he? He did not. There sometimes isn’t much difference between a knight’s quest and a fool’s errand.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore"
"You did not just say that”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Love isn't all we need--love is all there is.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“There was no In-N-Out in Connecticut, because clearly that state was an inhospitable wasteland.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“I'll answer that.' He took a deep breath, and I could see his eyes searching mine, like he was looking for an answer. 'I had thought that was the ending,' he finally said. 'But I might have been wrong.'
'I was just thinking,' I said, sure that the rest of the crowd could probably hear how hard my heart was beating, since it seemed deafening to me, pounding in my ears, 'that maybe Marjorie realized she was in love with Karl. And told him that. And said she was sorry for being scared.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything