Where I Belong Quotes

“Talking with Sweetbread, I wonder if that's what love is: the ability to go away and to come back again as if nothing has changed, even though everything has changed.”
― Gwendolyn Heasley, Where I Belong: A Contemporary Young Adult Novel About a Rich City Girl Starting Over and Finding Belonging in Texas

“Sixth-grade sweethearts. Wow. New Yorkers only commit to that type of monogamy with the Yankees or Giants”
― Gwendolyn Heasley, Where I Belong: A Contemporary Young Adult Novel About a Rich City Girl Starting Over and Finding Belonging in Texas

“Watch out for men who love something more than themselves or you. Their passion can be your prison.”
― Gwendolyn Heasley, Where I Belong: A Contemporary Young Adult Novel About a Rich City Girl Starting Over and Finding Belonging in Texas

“Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect? I learned about it in Science last year… Basically, the butterfly effect is a chaos theory, attributed to a guy named Edward Lorenz. Here’s the Clffnotes version: A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, and it sets off a tornado in Texas. It means the smallest moments of the past, even the ones that don’t have anything to do with us, affect our future, and our future selves”
― Gwendolyn Heasley, Where I Belong: A Contemporary Young Adult Novel About a Rich City Girl Starting Over and Finding Belonging in Texas

“I don't know where this story ends, Bubby, and that's okay.”
― Gwendolyn Heasley, Where I Belong: A Contemporary Young Adult Novel About a Rich City Girl Starting Over and Finding Belonging in Texas

“Just so you know," Bubby says before returning to his seat, "if I had been there, I would have carried you to the hospital on my back.”
― Gwendolyn Heasley, Where I Belong: A Contemporary Young Adult Novel About a Rich City Girl Starting Over and Finding Belonging in Texas

“And speaking of hotties, I have to go," I finish and turn to finish my walk toward Bubby.”
― Gwendolyn Heasley, Where I Belong: A Contemporary Young Adult Novel About a Rich City Girl Starting Over and Finding Belonging in Texas

“Bubby gently grabs me around the waist and pulls me to the ground.
"Touchdown," he whispers.”
― Gwendolyn Heasley, Where I Belong: A Contemporary Young Adult Novel About a Rich City Girl Starting Over and Finding Belonging in Texas