The Other Side of Gravity Quotes

“Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“There is no gravity. The only thing holding me to this planet is you.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“The loudest voices are often the ones that don’t even know they’re screaming.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“There was a tempest brewing in his eyes that I wasn’t sure I would survive if I stayed in his gaze too long. But he told me with his sure hold that I could trust him and not to run before I’d given him a chance to show him what it was like to ride out the storm.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“You are worth more than what is in your pockets. You’re worth what’s in your mind and what’s in your heart.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“His eyes held me in place, both of us never wavering, letting the air around us crackle with the words we’d spoken and the words yet to speak, and the knowledge that this could, in all honesty, become nothing between us. Or it could become everything.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“He said that people don’t make mistakes, they just make a learning curve for everybody else.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“Give me the breath in your lungs, all the steps you took to get here, the only heart you got, your very soul. I want all there is, Soph.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”

I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not?”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side of Gravity

“The fact that you can’t see how much you’re worth makes you worth so much more.” She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn’t know the words to ask. I continued. “A diamond doesn’t know how much it’s worth; it’s just beautiful because it exists.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak, winking is the star language, but the little ones still wonder.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“I smiled as much as I could in my shocked and drunk-on-Sophelia state. This girl. This girl. She was going to be the proverbial death of me. Maybe the actual death of me. But what a way for a guy to die. “Are you okay now that you’ve got your gravity in you?” I joked softly. She lifted her head and said just as softly, shyly, like she was just realizing something herself and didn’t know what to make of it. “There is no gravity. The only thing holding me to this planet is you.” Ah, no. I was going to kiss her.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“she still thought it was possible that I wasn’t completely under her spell. Blasted, clueless, gorgeous girl.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“people don’t make mistakes, they just make a learning curve for everybody else.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“I won’t be like every other male in your life, Sophelia.” My heart nearly stopped and I felt hot all over. I realized I was swooning. “I won’t just take things from you if you haven’t given them to me.” I gulped. Oh, no. He had to stop. I had to harden myself against him right now. I could feel myself getting even softer, mush, cookie dough, or what I imagined cookie dough to be anyway. I couldn’t have that. I had to be a stone. I couldn’t afford to be soft for him or anyone else. No more games. This man had to stop trying to make me fall in love with him.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“life would be a big, awesome journey or it would be nothing at all. Live like you’re made of stone or like you’re made of glass, but pick one. Have what you want, go after them, but want the things you’ve got. Bet with the whole pot or walk away with a smile. Don’t ever regret as you look back. And always tell the truth because you can’t ever run faster than a lie.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“I envy you even more, Maxton.” He smirked, trying to play it off. “Oh? And why’s that?” “Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“One day you’ll get to fly, Soph, just like Pan and Wendy. Fly away home to a better place where everything is brighter, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave. But right now? Don’t mourn me,” she”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“I’m going to be in a better place. I’m going to see Daddy. But you are going to help people. You are the helper, Sophelia, the one who will take all the bad and ugly and make it what it was supposed to be in the first place. You will bring this world to its knees one day.” I opened my mouth to say…something. “I—” “One day you’ll get to fly, Soph, just like Pan and Wendy. Fly away home to a better place where everything is brighter, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave. But right now? Don’t mourn me,” she whispered. “I love you and I planned this. All is as it should be. One day, you will understand.”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity

“You listen to me, Soph,” I growled, but took a breath, taking it down a notch. I lifted her face with a crooked finger under her chin, wanting nothing more than to kiss her trembling mouth and make everything bad in her life go away for good. But life didn’t work that way, did it? You couldn’t think happy thoughts and fly away to Neverland. And you couldn’t kiss girls and have everything in their life that was wrong be right. If only. But I was apparently doing something right, because that lip…it wasn’t trembling quite as much anymore. And her eyes? They begged me to save her. “You were slashed when I found you, remember? And now, you have some scars.” Her face crumpled and she tried to move it away from my hand, but I brought it back to face me. I wrapped my free hand around her back, right against the part of her I was speaking of, and brought her against me. I put my mouth against her ear. “What is a life without scars? Scars come in all forms and we all have them. Some deeper than others, some more than others, some harsher than others. Your scars are yours, Soph, and you earned them,” I said harshly, my lips touching the rim of her ear. “It felt like sh—awful going through what you did, but the point is you did it. You. No one else. And no one else could have but you. And your scars are beautiful because of who you are and what you did to earn them. Don’t ever be ashamed of them. As for you being a plague? If that’s so, then please, infect me. Because I want everything you’ve got to give me.” I”
― Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity