Sandy Hall > Quotes

“Sometimes it’s better to say something stupid than nothing at all.”
― Sandy Hall

“They sit there in the window of the coffee shop for almost an hour, not talking much, but looking at each other over the tops of their books, flirting somehow even without words. It would be gross if it weren’t adorable.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“...their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I'll die of embarrassment."
"At least you'll die knowing.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million."
"How many words are in the English language?"
"Not the point.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“When I think about it, it’s like I would have never been able to grow out of it. It’s like the tree and the bicycle. I grew around it and it became part of me.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this!”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“If you’re going to talk to this great ass, at least be excited about it.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I feel like this is a horror story. That's how scared I am right now.
"Don't be scared."
"That doesn't help.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I’m really tired of being embarrassed all the time. And trying and having nothing happen.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I'm aware of how unprofessional this is and yet I can't stop myself.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“Every time I see her, I’m always surprised. She keeps me on my toes. She smiles when I need her to, even though she could never know that I needed her to. I like the way she looks when she’s thinking. I like the way she looks at me when I’m thinking. She”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“For the record, I’ll still probably be pretty stupid sometimes. I make no promises that you’ll have the positive influence on me that you assume you’ll have.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I’m just really happy,” he says, rolling away from me and leaning up on his elbow. “I’m so happy it makes me want to hide, because I don’t know what to do with it all. I want to store it up and save it for winter.” “But winter just ended.” “Fine, I want to store it up and save it for when I don’t feel like it’s bursting from every single one of my pores. I didn’t know this was possible. To feel this way.” I lean up on my elbow to face him, smiling. “What? Are you going to make fun of me?” Gideon asks. Someone shushes us from a nearby blanket, so I pitch my voice low and whisper in his ear. “I can’t make fun of you because I feel the exact same way.” We”
― Sandy Hall, Been Here All Along

“Shh,” Casey says, pulling me back closer. “They’ll need our recollection of this blessed event because they’re both so drunk.” “I’m not that drunk,” Lea says without turning around. “I am,” Gabe says. “For the record.” “So what do you have to say for yourself?” Lea says, stabbing him in the chest again with her finger. “Please stop stabbing me in the chest,” he says.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I don’t know what you’re saying but I’m sure I love you!”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I look at her suspiciously. ... Nothing is ever short and easy in this class.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I sit up straight. She’s talking to me. No one ever talks to me. Oh, how I wish I knew human and could answer her. Instead I nibble on my peanut.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“We're not that kind of parents, Gideon" my mom says. "We want you to be healthy and happy and mostly just not to die alone.”
― Sandy Hall, Been Here All Along

“They come in here every once in a while, and she goes to one corner and he goes to the other, and then they move around the store creating parabolas as they come together and bounce apart. They're the weirdest couple on Earth. I want to write math equations about them.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I like squirrels,” she says with a shrug.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“...the people who take their coffee orders far too personally, who have deep-seated emotional issues about how many pumps of mocha they get.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I want stuff to be normal. But the more I try to make it normal, the worse I feel.”
― Sandy Hall

“Their trajectory of attraction is like an equation.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“the sun burns with the heat of a thousand George Foreman grills.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different: Chapter Sampler

“And I suppose they have friends in other places, and that I'm only seeing a tiny sliver of their lives, but it seems to me if they're moving in the same direction, why not move in the same direction together? I'm not talking about undying love, but I wish they would at least become friends. That wouldn't be too hard.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I have zero desire to bounce.”
― Sandy Hall, Been Here All Along

“I’m the oldest bench on this green and I get no respect. I’d like to say there are worthwhile things about the job. And maybe sometimes there are. Sometimes you get a really perfect butt; however, all rear ends are not created equal.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different: Chapter Sampler

“There’s a girl named Hillary who is everything you imagine a Hillary to be. At least everything I imagined a Hillary to be before Hillary Clinton came on the scene and smashed all of my previous Hillary prejudices, like hair tossing and talking like a Valley girl. This girl is setting that movement back twenty years.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different: Chapter Sampler

“Bench (on the green)”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different