The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight Quotes

“Good," Violet says. "Because I'll expect you to come back over when Monty and I get married."
"Monty?" Hadley asks, staring at her. She tries to successfully to recall if she's even seen them speak to each other. "You guys are engaged?" "Not yet," Violet says as she starts walking toward the dinning room. "But you don't look so gobsmacked. I've got a good feeling about it." Hadley falls into step beside her. "That's it? A good feeling?" "That's it," she says. "I think it's meant to be.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“En ocasiones lo que más daño nos hace no son los cambios, sino la bofetada de la familiaridad.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“When you're on the other side of it," she says, "fifty-two years can seem like about fifty-two minutes." She tips her head back and swallows the pill. "Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“I guess so,” she says, unable to keep the sigh out of her voice. “But not everyone keeps that promise.” She looks over toward the woman, still fast
asleep. “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

“You wait for ages, and then two come along at once.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside of her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Hadley falls into step beside her. 'That's it? A good feeling?' 'That's it,' she says. 'I think it's meant to be.' 'I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way, Hadley says with a frown, but Violet only smiles. 'What if it does?”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“But there's something about him that makes her heart quicken in the way it does when she's surprised. And she supposes that might just be it: the surprises of it all.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Her eyes travel down to where he's gripping the handle of her suitcase. "What're you doing?" she asks, blinking at him.
"You looked like you needed some help."
Hadley just stares at him.
"And this way it's perfectly legal," he adds with a grin.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Hadley presiono su cabeza contra la ventana del taxi y se descubre sonriendo al pensar en él. Es como una canción que uno no puede quitarse de la cabeza. Por mucho que lo intente, la melodía de su encuentro suena sin fin en su cerebro, cada vez más hermosa, como una nana, o un himno, y se le ocurre que nunca se cansará de escucharla.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“It’s easy when you find the right person.”
― 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

“He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their daughters houses.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“The only time it doesn't help to imagine the sky is when you're thirty thousand feet in the air with nowhere to go but down”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“But she knew it would never happen. She had no intention of visiting him there. Even if she were open to the idea, as Mom and Dad both hoped she would be, the mathematics of it seemed utterly impossible to her. What was she supposed to do, spend Christmas there and Easter here? See her dad every other holiday and one week during the summer, just enough to glimpse his new life in fragments, tiny slivers of a world she had no part in? And all the while missing out on those moments of her mom’s life—her mom, who’d done nothing to deserve to spend Christmas alone?

That, it seemed to Hadley, was no way to live. Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable; if she could be both places at once, live parallel lives; or, simpler yet, if Dad would just come home. Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside of her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“There’s always that tiny piece of hope that this day—your day—will be the one to turn out differently.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable; if she could be both places at once, live parallel lives... Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside of her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“This wedding will put a period at the end of a sentence that wasn't supposed to have ended yet.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Just like when you're young and in love, a seven hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.”
― 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

“¿Sabías que dos personas que se encuentran por lo menos tres veces en menos de veinticuatro horas tienen un noventa y ocho por ciento más de probabilidades de volver a encontrarse?”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Dos personas que se conocen en un aeropuerto tienen un setenta y dos por ciento más de probabilidades de enamorarse que dos que se conozcan en cualquier otro sitio”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Though it's not as bad until we get up in the air."
"How come?" he asks. "Plenty of wide open spaces up there."
"But no escape route."
"Ah," he says. "So you're looking for an escape route."
Hadley nods. "Always."
"Figures," he says, sighing dramatically. "I get that from girls a lot.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“The only time it doesn't help to imagine the sky is when you're thirty thousand feet in the air with nowhere to go but down.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Hadley didn’t know it was possible to miss someone who’s only a few feet away, but there it is: She misses him so much it nearly flattens her.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“She wishes that it were true, all of it. That it were more than just a story. That it were their story.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight