The Neighbors Quotes

“You don't really dream about the things you can become if you know you can't become them.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“They were unlikely neighbors, and unlikely neighbors were the most likely to give each other trouble.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“He had been stupid to think it would have been so easy. Nobody simply walked into paradise.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“She wouldn’t allow Red to ruin this for her. Andrew was going to be hers, no matter how hard Red kicked and screamed. From”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“It turned out to be nothing, which at first felt like a blessing, but quickly transformed into a curse. A baby would have saved him from the other woman in Andrew’s life—the one who would ultimately tear them apart. Emily”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“Because he knew it was either him or Andrew, and Mickey wasn’t ready to die.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“It didn’t matter how much he had done for her or how hard he had tried, because in the end he hadn’t tried hard enough. He had failed. And he had run. And nobody was going to give a shit about how he had given up college, how he had lost the only girl he’d ever loved, how he had spent Friday nights mopping up vomit rather than hanging out with the people who had once been his friends. Nobody cared about that because it didn’t matter. Andrew was the bad guy.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“Not like his mother. Even as he felt guilty for leaving her, he hated her for it. Leaving home was what kids were supposed to do—grow up, get out, start a life. The mortification he’d feel if he couldn’t make rent, if he ended up having to go”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“They were the type who held neighborhood barbecues and ran through wheat fields on the Fourth of July. These were people Andrew wished he knew. He”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“The screen door hung at an awkward angle, like a waterlogged Band-Aid trying to hang on with all its might. There was no doubt that the next storm would tear it from its hinges, sending it tumbling down the street into someone’s award-winning garden.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“Really?” Red asked, unfazed. “Or maybe you can fall in love with him,” he said. “Maybe you can do that right in front of me. That would probably kill me too.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

“His philosophy: buy the cleaner that had the brightest color, the one that looked like it would instantly kill you if you threw your head back and chugged. He was naturally drawn to the purples and blues, deciding on something called Kaboom, not because of anything on the label, but because of its name. He imagined Mickey’s bathroom exploding beneath a violet mushroom cloud, giving him just enough time to bolt out of the house and tuck-and-roll onto the patchy front lawn.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors