Alex Jordan

“It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“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

“Keep people at arm’s length and your feelings to yourself.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything