“ All that time I'd spent worrying about why I'm here and how I'm supposed to live had kept me from remembering that Jeremy Pratt will never be back. His people will never have him again. He is Jeremy P… John Corey Whaley
“ You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up. John Corey Whaley
“ Death can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up at night. But we’ve also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of our f… John Corey Whaley
“ They say the heart is just a muscle. They say it plays absolutely no role in our emotions and that its use as a symbol for love is based on archaic theories of it being the seat of the soul or somethi… John Corey Whaley
“ We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didn't let them help us because we needed it, we let them help us because inside of humans is this thing, this unnamed need to feel as if we are use… John Corey Whaley
“ That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us. John Corey Whaley
“ What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again. John Corey Whaley
“ But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether. John Corey Whaley
“ Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it… John Corey Whaley
“ We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all. John Corey Whaley
“ Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be t… John Corey Whaley
“ Jealous of the crazy gay kid. That doesn't sound right.""Hey, Sol," she said, her tone getting serious for a second. "Those are two things about you out of a million. Don't box yourself in. John Corey Whaley
“ But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward. John Corey Whaley
