We Were Never Here Quotes

“You think the worst is behind you, but it's never behind you. In fact, saying something is the worst does not leave room for all the bad stuff that can follow it. You say the pain is nine, but you mean ten. You leave room.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“Sometimes you stop seeing what the person is to the world. You only see what the person is to you.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“He stood up and we hugged. This is what it was like: like all the parts of me that had been exposed, all my nerves and cells and synapses, were finally again connected.
Click.
Connor.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“Question: Who do you go to first? The boy you love or the boy you love's dog?”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“Lizzie,' he said. It was only my name, but in it was all these different emotions at aonce. A prism in a word.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“I tried to let myself just... be. It was hard to let not knowing what was about to happen be a good thing. But I tried it out. Being in the moment. Not in the past or in the future. In this moment now.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“Before I'd even said hello, Connor was telling me good-bye.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here

“Connor beams, and the light inside him somehow manages to burn brighter.”
― Jennifer Gilmore, We Were Never Here