Goodbye Stranger Quotes

“Who's the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who's horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you make yourself, all the time.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Love is when you like someone so much that you can’t just call it “like,” so you have to call it “love.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“I think that when you don’t know, you should just wait until you do.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Bridge knew why she was here. It’s why we’re all here, she thought. Call it Mr. Partridge with his black-and-white cookies. Call it Em standing on that stage with her knees shaking but her voice strong. Call it Jamie looking awkward in the doorway of her bedroom after she’d had the mummy nightmare. Call it love.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“I guess my question is: Is the new you the stranger? Or is the stranger the person you leave behind?" -Sherm”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“There was no black line separating Colorado from Utah. There was no black line between friendship and whatever might come next.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Maybe it should just make you feel lucky. Yeah, you were really lucky you didn’t die after the accident. But you were a lot luckier to be born in the first place. So if you’re here for a reason, maybe we all are.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Love is when your heart wraps around something and won’t let go.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“My grandfather used to say that everyone alive has already beaten the craziest odds, just being born. Like one in a trillion. Your parents could have had a million different kids, but they had you. And before that could happen, your parents had to be born themselves, and their parents had to be born.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“People act like riddles are hard, but real life is harder. In real life, there are always more than two doors" -Sherm”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Em: I'm falling apart. That's what I'm trying to tell you
Bridge: You're not falling apart. You're scared.
Em: Isn't that the same thing?
Bridge: No”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Thank you for showing me your planet.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“I wish I could see what would have hapenned if I hadn't told. You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. So now there's a universe in which I kept my mouth shut. But I can't see what it looks like.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Life isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you make yourself, all the time.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Let’s say everyone has nine thousand things about themselves,” Em had explained to Tab and Bridge in sixth grade, “and say two people fall in love because it seems like all their things match up. But what they don’t know is that only like a thousand of their things actually match up. My mom says most people who get married don’t even know those other eight thousand things about themselves yet. So it could happen to anyone.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“You can have it all, but you can't have it all at once.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Anyway,' Sherm said quietly, 'people fake stuff all the time.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“And if you've got a voice, you might as well use it, right?”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“This is the world of pretend. We are artists and we are servants of the stage, and I take both jobs very seriously. As artists, we work as a collective—all for one and one for all. As servants, we work for thos who venture out alone, otherwise known as performers.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Tab's mom said that when people reached out to hurt your feelings, it was because they secretly felt they deserved to be talked to that way. She said that they had 'long, hard roads ahead' and that you should just wish them well.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Sometimes your body feels like a cage for all the stuff inside. You paint your nails, braid your hair, and buy the right kind of jeans, but none of it is really about you.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Thirteen broken bones and a punctured lung. You must have been put on this earth for a reason, little girl, to have survived.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“When she was eight years old, Bridget Barsamian woke up in a hospital, where a doctor told her she shouldn’t be alive.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Why don’t you and Patrick actually talk to each other?” Tab said. Em looked up. “Are you demented? And say what?”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Listening, you reflect that you are probably the worst person on the planet. But this is not exactly news.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“That's what life is. Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn't something that happens to you. It's something you make yourself, all the time." -Celeste”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger