Here We Go Again Quotes

“She thought Rosemary would kiss like they’re in a Jane Austen novel, but she kisses her like they’re in a Jane Austen movie adaptation.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“Life is the prickly pear. It’s always going to be a combination of beauty and hurt, no matter how hard you try to protect yourself from the hard parts. There is no way to avoid pain.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“America is being a shady bitch, and I’m not going to her birthday party.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“You don’t understand, Dad,” she blathers into the phone, but the truth is, she doesn’t understand, either. She doesn’t know why it’s so hard for her to let in that hurt. “I…I don’t know how to love halfway,” she reasons aloud. “I don’t know how to care just a little bit. If I let myself care at all, I’m going to care with every ounce of my being. And if I do that, and I lose them, it will hurt like hell.”
She’s not sure if she’s talking about Joe or Rosemary or both of them. The sun is blinding and she can’t see a thing.
“And…and I don’t know how to hurt halfway, either,” she continues. “I don’t know how to feel anything in moderation.”
There is silence on the other end this time. “Ah, but Chicken,” her dad says immediately. “Your big feelings are one of the most beautiful things about you.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“This is love. Love is seeing perfection in every flaw. Seeing every flaw as a miracle because it belongs to the person you care about the most. Love is saying, yes, still. Even after all these years”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“Hale is about to snap. All the telltale signs are there. Teeth? Grinding. Fists? Clenched. Creepy throat tendon? Bulging creepily. Logan knows this version of Hale. She knows the way a minor inconvenience can become a catastrophe in Hale’s mind, and how a small mistake can avalanche into a spiral of panic. Every misstep is a fuckup, and every fuckup is a sign of a great moral failing.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“And he looked her dead in the eye with a grimace of pain twisting his mouth. “I spent my whole life choosing comfort. In my death, I want to choose something else.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“You only get one life, and it goes by too quickly to spend time waiting for what you want. Have adventures! See cool shit!”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“Drag shows were supposed to be a place where we were safe. A place where we could escape their hate and love ourselves. But they don’t want us to love ourselves, not even behind closed doors.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“And that’s the problem with her ADHD brain. If she lets it feel one thing, it will feel all the things, all the time. It doesn’t do moderation either. Every emotion is always at eleven, which is why it’s easiest not to feel anything at all.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“Deep down, Hale is still that scared little girl who lost her dad and abruptly moved across the country and always needed to know what was coming next.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“Kisses that feel like waking up. Touches that feel like dreaming. Love is finding someone who helps you write the story of yourself.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“This is love. Love is seeing perfection in every flaw. Seeing every flas as a miracle because it belongs to the person you care about most.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“Someone who moves like he's three platypuses inside a trench coat stumbles closer to the van, but then Odysseus lunges at the window and barks like a maniac, and the trench coat platypuses stagger backward and disappear into the night.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“[Life] is always going to be a combination of beauty and hurt, no matter how hard you try to protect yourself from the hard parts. There is no way to avoid pain.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“The way a simple touch that had always meant nothing suddenly meant everything. Confusion and shame and an inexplicable flutter in her rib cage every time she made Hale laugh. You weren't supposed to feel that way about your best friend.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“It was the entire universe, that feeling in her chest. It was galaxies and infinity.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“where in the name of Phoebe Bridgers is your family”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“When you die, it’s going to fucking destroy me.”
Joe uses what little strength he has to push her feet of the bed. “Good. It should destroy you. If nothing can destroy you, Logan, then what’s the point?”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“A little before noon, they cross the border into Texas. And western Texas kind of sucks. It’s all flat fields and giant billboards with statements that are either aggressively pro-Jesus or anti-teacher. She didn’t know anti-teacher billboards were a thing, but apparently everything is bigger in Texas, including hatred.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“She can’t believe she just stared down the barrel of Joe Delgado’s giant dick and now he’s outrunning her in a wheelchair through the streets of Santa Fe.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“She’ll tear out that one wall in her condo that makes her feel uneasy, and she’ll finally replace her bedroom carpet with hardwood floors, and she’ll train for a marathon, and the absolute last thing she’ll do for the next ten weeks is sit around with her thoughts.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“Most teachers at Vista Summit go exclusively by their last names as a byproduct of working at a school run by dude bros who once played Vista sports and then became teacher-coaches so they could revel in those glory days forever.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“It isn’t the dumping itself she takes issue with. She’s been dumped many times. In fact, she’s been dumped in this exact Applebee’s at least twice.”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again