Everyone We've Been Quotes

“Was” or “am”? What is the word for things you were and no longer are but always will be?”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“Addie, letting you believe that you weren't strong enough was one thing- and it was wrong- but the biggest lie is that there are things that aren't survivable. That there are things not worth surviving. I never, ever want you to believe that. That you can't keep going or that you can't overcome the thing you're facing”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“Our eyes meet and flicker away from each other again, and because I'm in the process of being devastated, I don't tell him I agree with him. That I think love wake people up. Even the idea of it. Even the whisper of the idea of it.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“I cave when things get hard. I prefer to live vicariously, to live other people's stories because I am not brave enough to live my own. That is who I am.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“Of the space that is left by all the lives and people and things I can’t hold on to. I don’t know what makes them disappear, or where they disappear to. Only that the feeling terrifies me”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“Music, unless you write it, is always vicarious. It's written by a composer in a particular manner with a particular style. It's somebody else's story, and even if you can relate to tor find yourself in it or hide yourself in it, it doesn't belong to you.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“But most of the time, people are doing completely mundane things and just making them seem better with their enthusiasm. It's all in how you sell the story.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been

“I liked that its sound was tinged with a trace of sadness and that the pockets of space between the notes were so deep, it sounded like you could hide entire worlds in there.”
― Sarah Everett, Everyone We've Been