Results May Vary Quotes

“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it….No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company. —Hunter S. Thompson to Hume Logan, April 22, 1958”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“But the thing about what-ifs is that you can drive yourself crazy, spinning your thoughts around and around until you’re dizzy; and for all that, you only ever end up in the same place you’re standing. All you can work with is what happened. What might have happened only haunts you.”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“loss splits your world into people who get it and people who don’t. It’s human nature to try to make things not feel as awful as they are, which is why people say garbage like ‘Everything happens for a reason.’ But you’ve never done that. You never tried to pretend. Even that night—I’d done something you should have been angry at me for, but instead, you saw that I was hurting and you gave me comfort. You weren’t trying to make me talk about it, you weren’t telling me it was going to be okay; you were just…there with me. It was such a relief.”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“Loss splits your world into people who get it and people who don't.”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“There are these two little words I know, that we all know; we learn them so early that we can't remember when we did. They have a gravitational attraction to each other, I would say: the one word 'love,' and the other word 'story.' 'Cause you can have a story without love, sure; but when it comes to the kind of love you fall in, whether it's a slow glide or a blind plunge over the edge...you can't have a love without a story.”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary