Over You Quotes

“Maybe sometimes you have to leave before you're ready to let go; sometimes you have to leave before someone is ready to let go of you. That's the rub of it-if you wait until you're ready to do everything, you'll never get anything done.”
― Amy Reed, Over You

“People grow up listening to all kinds of stories, but that doesn't mean they all want to spend their whole lives studying them.”
― Amy Reed, Over You

“Humans are capable of a lot more than they know.”
― Amy Reed, Over You

“This is the downside of being complete. Others want what you have. They covet your doneness.”
― Amy Reed, Over You

“...but I am doing that thing I always do-the obsessing about what I don't have, the ignoring where I am now.”
― Amy Reed, Over You

“Supposedly, he didn’t used to be a douchebag, of which you are the proof. At one time, long, long ago, he was someone your mother could love. We don’t quite believe this, even though he will occasionally roll his eyes at one of your colorful outfits or pseudo-revolutionary statements and say something cryptic like If you only knew me when I first met your mom, like you’re too late, you missed your chance to have a parent who actually understands you, and now you’re stuck with this prematurely balding man who works seventy hours a week at a bank and drives a gas-guzzling four-wheel-drive Suburban, even though he never hauls anything around except his new brat kid and way-too-young and obnoxiously boring trophy wife and the occasional large electronics purchase.”
― Amy Reed, Over You