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“He’s like a song she can’t get out of her head. Hard as she tries, the melody of their meeting runs through her mind on an endless loop, each time as surprisingly sweet as the last, like a lullaby, like a hymn, and she doesn’t think she could ever get tired of hearing it.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent more likely to meet again?”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“You know what they say," Dad said. "If you love something set it free."

"What if he doesn't come back?"

"Something do, somethings don't," he said, reaching to tweak her nose. "I'll always come back to you anyway."

"You don't light up," Hadley said, but Dad only smiled.

"I do when I'm with you.”
― Jennifer E. Smith , The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“And see those clouds?'
'Hard to miss'
'Those are cumulus clouds. Did you know that?'
'I'm sure I should.'
They're the best ones.'
'How come?'
Because they look the way clouds are supposed to look, the way you draw them when you're a kid. Which is nice, you know? ...”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“That’s the way these things work, kiddo,” he says. “Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Well, I guess we all can't have epic loves at such a young age.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Not everyone makes it fifty-two years, and if you do, it doesn't matter that you once stood in front of all those people and said that you would. The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“There's a kind of unfamiliar electricity that goes through her at the nearness of him, and she can't help wondering if he feels it, too.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“You," he says, laughing in spite of himself, "are mad as a hatter.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“But it’s there in his face, a fleeting reluctance that matches her own. They stand there together for a long time, for too long, for what seems like forever, each unwilling to part ways, letting the people behind them stream past like a river around rocks. Page: 91”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Hadley realises that even though everything else is different, even though there's still an ocean between them, nothing really important has changed at all.

He's still her dad. The rest is just geography.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“That they were left with only this--this awkward, prearranged meet-up, this terrible silence--seemed almost more than she could bear, and the unfairness of it all welled up inside of her. It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“The idea that their paths might have easily not crossed leaves her breathless, like a near-miss accident on a highway, and she can't help marveling at the sheer randomness of it all. Like any survivor of chance, she feels a quick rush of thankfulness, part adrenaline and part hope.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Because the truth is that now that he’s here, she can’t imagine it any other way. Now that he’s here, she worries that crossing an entire ocean with someone between them might be something like torture.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”
― Caspar David Friedrich