Before Goodbye Quotes

“Words are three-dimensional. But we pretend they’re flat. Why? Why don’t we say what lies beneath our words? Why is everything such a secret?”
― Mimi Cross, Before Goodbye

“Six guys. Six girls. Two guides who treat the term lightly. Add a complete lack of civilization, and even with the daunting distance we’ve trekked, there’s been plenty of time to—”
― Mimi Cross, Before Goodbye

“Despite that, for a fleeting moment I have the urge to ask if Dean Thomas is still in Gryffindor, or if he’s gone over to Hufflepuff, where I’d always believed he belonged. But my father wouldn’t get the joke, and in this case, Dean isn’t a first name.”
― Mimi Cross, Before Goodbye

“Singing with a band is trampolining with your breath. A sound you make that makes you too.”
― Mimi Cross, Before Goodbye

“If I were to go back and read them over, would the words I’d marked so carefully reveal additional information, maybe even entirely different information?”
― Mimi Cross, Before Goodbye

“Love means ten thousand different things to ten thousand different people—there is no harder word to define.”
― Mimi Cross, Before Goodbye

“It’s like she knows once your words escape, they go out into the world and wreak havoc.”
― Mimi Cross, Before Goodbye