Althea & Oliver Quotes

“How superfluous other people can seem when you are convinced you already have the only ones you need.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“There is only one way to go now: forward, into the unknown”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“It's exhausting to care about something that much, to put in all that effort. Whenever I quit smoking it's so much work, and every time I slip up there's this thrill, because I just stop caring. Sometimes it's a relief not to give a shit.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“What about her?” Oliver asks. In the corner, a girl in her twenties is sitting alone, holding a book open with one hand and deftly maneuvering a glass of wine toward her mouth without looking. Setting the wine down, she turns a page, then eats a single piece of sushi, chewing it slowly, resting her chopsticks on her plate. After a moment she takes another sip of wine, smiling at something she just read. Nicky refills her cup. “When she goes to bed tonight, she’s not going to lie there wondering if she said the right thing. And at the end of the day, there’s not a lot of people who can say that.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“I'll say," she finally says, "that you were my favorite."

"I'll tell the softball player that you were my almost," he says.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“Turns out, they're both right -- it feels good, and it still hurts.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“Did you figure you’d come up here and they’d fix you, turn you into a normal kid?” “I guess,” says Oliver. “That never really occurred to me. I’m a fifteen-year-old boy. There’s a fucked-up version of me and then a less fucked-up version. Believe me, if they walked in here tomorrow and said you were cured, it wouldn’t solve all your problems.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“Maybe this is what college is going to be like—guys wandering in and out of one another’s rooms in flip-flops and pajamas, sussing out the few tolerable companions among a veritable sea of morons.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“When you live in New York City, you think every other place is the same, this big, generic landmass of Not-New-York.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“Then what? Two, three, maybe four hours of beer and conversation—would it be so bad? Absolutely. It sounds profoundly awkward.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver

“To her this is some kind of first step, a necessary catalyst that will set off a series of reactions and completely transform their relationship. To him it’s just an experiment, the test of a curious hypothesis.”
― Cristina Moracho, Althea & Oliver