The Opposite of Maybe Quotes

“The heart is a funny little animal, isn't it?...It gets this idea about somebody, and then it doesn't let go, even when things go bad. Even when they go awful, and anybody else could see plain as day you should get out. There's your own stupid little heart just bumping around claiming, 'No, it's fine! I'm fine! It's all good!”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe

“This baby didn't come from romance, it turns out. It came from somebody forgetting to put a condom back on and now he's very, very sorry about that lapse.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe

“Their condominium complex even has a name, Palm Desert Flower Estates—four words that she puts in a different wrong order every time—and it’s made of blindingly white stucco and has smooth, even sidewalks, streetlights, and mailboxes in a respectable row, with names all uniformly typed out by a little label machine. There’s even an office, with a manager and a full-time, smiling secretary, and a glittering turquoise pool in the back, with white plastic lounge chairs, always empty.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe

“You think your heart has broken, but it hasn’t really broken—not any more than it already was. You just notice it because it’s got one extra crack in it right now. But that’s so the light gets in. Somebody said that: the light comes through the broken places.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe

“gripping feeling, and no, there has been nothing like it. It’s got to be dangerous, all this heart overload. No wonder Soapie tried to protect her from it. No wonder Greta wouldn’t ever let her pick up the newborn Sandrine. She sits and strokes the little shell-like ear, the soft cheek, the little button of a nose. It’s as though she’s been born again herself, some new raw part of her emerging from the wreckage of her grief and her longing. It makes her want to cry, how close she came to missing out on this. She and Jonathan move through the first few days, sleep-deprived and stunned. He is excellent at keeping people away. He won’t let Andres and Judith Schultz drop by with their baby gift, and he avoids the nice condo dwellers who smile at him in the bright sunny passageways and politely inquire about the new baby. Greta says this is a good thing and is exactly what he should be doing: using his handy Y chromosome to protect”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe

“somebody—Greta? Anyone?—have taken a moment out to describe the crushing weight of the love she’d feel for this baby, the way her heart would almost hurt with all that love? Sometimes in the first days, sitting by the crib and watching little Serena sleeping, she tries to recall ever knowing this kind of”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe

“My mother killed herself. Soapie told me today...All those times, Greta! All those seances we did, remember that? And the times we wanted to be her, and then she had just left me that way! Just threw me away, like I was nothing. How did she think I was going to turn out okay after that?”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe

“We don’t get to pick who we love. The heart just goes on doing what it does best, falling in love and opening itself up, and it doesn’t give a shit about who we’re supposed to be with. It’s just happy to go on churning out all this love.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe

“Nobody can resist a baby.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Opposite of Maybe