Into the Blue Quotes

“For that was the true cost of happiness: never knowing when it might be lost.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“The truth is, there's no such thing as a normal life. There's just the time you get and how you spend it...Love is always a risk.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“I’m saying that I’ve had years to adjust to the fact that I’m not capable of loving another person the way that I love you.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Your scene partner is your life. If this is to work, you must follow them wherever they go. You must follow them to the end, into death if necessary.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Noah’s love for AJ was absolute, his desire to leave her non-existent; but their future didn’t hinge not on Noah’s heart so much as his capacity for uncertainty. For that was the true cost of happiness: never knowing when it might be lost.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“We better get back," said AJ, disappointed. "Dave will think I kidnapped you."
"Dave wouldn't think that," said Noah, taking her trash and stacking it on top of his. "He knows I'd follow you anywhere."
He said it easily, and AJ pretended that it hadn't stopped her heart, and they turned away, leaving Atlas to carry heavier things.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“The mind thinks, but the body knows.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“It's a terrible thing to stand in the wings, haunted by the specter of your younger self.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“And once more, AJ and Noah vanished into those timeless lovers.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“The silence that exists between two people contains entire universes, Ezell had written.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Laughter is a response to psychic death. We could have died. We didn’t. So we laugh.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“I just stared and stared at the stage door, thinking how I’d fucking lied to myself. I love you. There was no end date that could make this hurt less—no plan that could fix it. And if I walked away thinking that would somehow lessen the pain, then I was not only a coward but a fool.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“The first scene we ever did, the one that made you run away? he said, his eyes shining. I wasn't acting at all. I really was that in love with you. I still am.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Her head fit perfectly under his chin. This feeling was beyond good—it was safe and warm and right. It was home.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Don’t you get it?” he said, incredulous. “Without you, life is nice and easy and yes, maybe just a little empty, and if I have to go, so be it. But if you are there—” He had to pause. “If you’re there, life is messy and unpredictable and beautiful. And when it’s time to do this thing I have—I have to do it—I won’t. I won’t be able to.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Seeds contain cyanide. Laughter is a gasp. Beginnings and endings are born at once.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Today something remarkable happened. A girl came to the house.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“Were good peoples’ lives really so easily destroyed? Or had the wide-open future always been a myth?”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“It’s fascinating,” he said with almost academic detachment. “Improv operates out of the collective unconscious. Connections between actors can be extremely psychic. My aunt and uncle claimed they could feel each other’s emotions—it’s trippy stuff. With us”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“If you wish to be true, you will not be able to shy away from what is hard and what is ugly. You will have to say things you don't wish to say and do things you don't wish to do. You will have to crawl in filth while your scene partner shines in the spotlight and do it with merriness in your heart...”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue: A Love Story

“The novelty wears off pretty fucking fast, then you’re just chasing the high.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

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― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“How she’d come to admit that the rare days Lucas was around were her worst. How she’d realized she wanted more watching Pat and Elle. How she’d learned she could ask for it watching AJ.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue

“That she was safe.”
― Emma Brodie, Into the Blue