Nowhere Near You Quotes

“...and I couldn’t reply because, aside from my disgust and my anger and my scorching throat, what tasted worse was knowing he was right.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“Sometimes it's about working with your bad parts, not fixing them.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“...basically everything in the world is miraculous.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“I know you are good. You befriended me, of all people.
Can you blame yourself for how you behaved after a head injury and grief and fear garbled your mind?
I only blame you for not sharing this burden.
The cruelties of this world extend beyond what others do to us; they extend into the decisions we make when we are in no fit state to make them. Extend into our regrets and remorse's tendency to make the smallest of our mistakes into monstrous walls we cannot clamber over.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“Stop saying the c-word." Moritz, I'm not looking for a cure. Really, I can't imagine being someone who didn't see the world how I do. Can you imagine if someone tried to hand you some eyeballs? You'd flush them down a toilet. With dignity.
As a kid, I daydreamed about being normal, like kids with glasses still daydream about being astronauts. Daydreams aren't realistic. I only wanted normal because I thought normal was a word that meant "surviving the world.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“No, how do you know I'm good? Can you really just tell by looking at someone?' What if someone could see the goodness inside people, in colors, how I see electricity?”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“I am so accustomed to pains in my chest, Ollie. Those pains are infinitely trivial beside the notion of not meeting the boy I love.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“But here's my humble pie: I've never been all that awesome at patience.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“If the world can suffer my oddities, it can welcome you.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You

“...I’m finally getting a little taste of how terrifying strangers can be and a bigger appreciation of what it is to be you, alone in a crowd of people.”
― Leah Thomas, Nowhere Near You