We Fell Apart Quotes

“We all stayed out too late / We fell apart and made mistakes / They said we didn’t matter / So we mattered to each other.”
― E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart

“I have an impulse to apologize, but my mother always says that many women apologize when they´ve done nothing wrong, like they´re apologizing simply for existing.”
― E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart

“I actually love it," he says.
"The Impossible looming void?"
"The infinity. Or the depths, or whatever. Everyday problems are unimportant out here.”
― E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart

“You know how some parents, when their kid is cranky, or messing around when it's time to go somewhere - you know how some parents say okay, then, I'm leaving without you! Bye! And they leave the playground, or whereever? They maybe even go a ways down the street until their kid comes crying and running behind them, begging not to be abandoned, promising to be good. My mom was that mom.

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But there are other parents who would never do that to a kid. They would scold the kid, maybe, or coax the kid, or pick the kid up, or even get mad, but they wouldn't threaten to leave a little person they're responsible for.”
― E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart

“I think you can decide to be obligated to someone. You can decide they are worth the commitment and the devotion. And when that’s what you’ve decided, you step up for them. You offer backup. The commitment doesn’t have to last forever, but if you act like it matters enough to last, it has a chance of lasting.”
― E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart

“I was eighteen, a cold cup of tea, unwanted. I had an arsenal of weapons. I was the bringer of madness.”
― E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart

“You know how some parents, when their kid is cranky, or messing around when it's time to go somewhere - you know how some parents say okay, then, I'm leaving without you! Bye! And they leave the playground, or whereever? They maybe even go a ways down the street until their kid comes crying and running behind them, begging not to be abandoned, promising to be good. My mom was that mom.
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But there are other parents who would never do that to a kid. They would scold the kid, maybe, or coax the kid, or pick the kid up, or even get mad, but they wouldn't threaten to leave a little person they're responsible for.”
― E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart