The Unexpected Everything Quotes

“I could do this. If whole galaxies could change, so could I.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“You have to try. You have to take your chances. Go and attempt and see what happens. And even if you fail - especially if you fail - come back with your experience and your hard-won knowledge and a story you can tell. And then later you can say, without regret or hesitation... 'Once, I dared to dare greatly”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Because believing you’re not alone is the cruelest trick of all.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“It's always a risk. Wherever there is great emotion. because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Theoretical crushes could remain perfect and flawless, because you never actually had to find out what that person was really like or deal with the weird way they chewed or anything.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“I looked up at him, and a thought passed through my brain before I could stop or analyze it. It’s you—of course it is. There you are.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“I'll answer that.' He took a deep breath, and I could see his eyes searching mine, like he was looking for an answer. 'I had thought that was the ending,' he finally said. 'But I might have been wrong.'
'I was just thinking,' I said, sure that the rest of the crowd could probably hear how hard my heart was beating, since it seemed deafening to me, pounding in my ears, 'that maybe Marjorie realized she was in love with Karl. And told him that. And said she was sorry for being scared.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“The idea that you could rethink the thing you'd always thought you wanted and change your plan - it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful" -Andie”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Keep people at arm’s length and your feelings to yourself.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Or maybe I hadn't. Maybe I'd just been waiting for this moment, right now.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“If whole galaxies could change, so could I”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“You have to try,” he said, his voice barely above a whisper. He closed his eyes, just for a moment, then opened them and forced
himself to go on. “You have to take your chances. Go and attempt and see what happens. And even if you fail—especially if you
fail—come back with your experience and your hard-won knowledge and a story you can tell. And then later you can say, without regret or hesitation . . . ‘Once, I dared to dare greatly.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends... but in the end, it's just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It's better, really, to learn early. This way, you can save yourself some disappointment.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“The idea that you could rethink the thing you’d always thought you wanted and change your plan – it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“I knew that this couldn't last- that there were people waiting and he had things to do and this couldn't go on forever. But in that moment it was like everything fades away and there was only me and Clark and the possibility of us- whatever we might become- stretching forward in a hundred different directions, all of them unexpected, each one better than the last, the ending not yet written.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Wait,” Toby said, talking over her as she looked around at all of us. “So this means all you guys are off, like, rounding the bases and I’m still in the dugout. I’m the person selling Cracker Jack in the stands.”

“This metaphor is getting weird,” Palmer murmured to me.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“This idea that the person who kisses you first gets, with that kiss, a little piece of your soul. And they have a hold over you. Most people don't ever use it against you. But some people do.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Once, I dared to dare greatly.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Oh, that is where you are mistaken. Believing that such a thing – just a kiss – has ever, for even a second, existed in this world.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“DAD!” I screamed as I barreled into the house, Toby at my heels. A second later, I realized how that sounded. “Everything is fine!” I yelled a moment later. There was no need to give my father a heart attack.

“No, it’s not!” Toby yelled, though a little less loudly than me. “We need help!”

“What’s going on?”
― Morgan matson, The Unexpected Everything

“It’s always a risk,” the Elder said, but more quietly now, like perhaps he was no longer speaking to her. “Wherever there is
great emotion. Because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.”
“It was only a kiss,” Tamsin said, focusing back on the owl.
“Oh,” the Elder said, shaking this head, “that is where you are mistaken. Believing that such a thing—just a kiss—has ever, for even a second, existed in this world”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“So have adventures. Go exploring. Drive around at midnight. Feel the wind running through your hair.
Life is so short, my darling. And there's no day like today.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Every day. Even now I'm always thinking about what I want to tell her. stuff she'd find funny. It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“And as I touched his cheek and his hand tightened on my waist, I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun" -Andie”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“They didn't dwell; they looked for solutions, made some snacks, and kept moving forward.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“Wait, I'm sorry, but how do you not read books? Like-what do you do on planes?”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“The idea that you could rethink the thing you’d always thought you wanted and change your plan—it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful. It was the
opposite of everything I had long believed to be true.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“For the first few weeks after we'd gotten back together, I'd been worried that things might fall apart again, not sure that I was up to being in a real relationship, one with actual stakes and feelings and something to lose”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything

“But this was the way I liked things. I ended it (or he did), I had a few weeks’ getting over it and
listening to lots of girl-power music and eating ice cream, and then, before too long, I’d start to crush
on someone new and would begin the whole cycle over again. It worked for me.”
― Morgan Matson, The Unexpected Everything