In Twenty Years Quotes

“The past is who you are. The future is what you do with that.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“patterns repeat themselves, after all. Always.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“Independence, she’s discovered, feels just as good as codependence once did. She’s as surprised as anyone to realize this.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“The rest of them never considered time, how it moves both so quickly and so slowly that it’s always just beyond your grasp.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“Some of our stories are shorter than others. Some last a hundred years. It’s not how long you live; it’s how you do it while you’re lucky enough to have the chance.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“being family doesn’t mean that you don’t hurt each other. It means that you might nick each other from time to time, but you love one another anyway.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“I knew that none of us are made any promises, none of us are ordained to be here forever, or even for as long as we want to believe. This is what nearly being robbed of time does to you: it leaves you glancing over both shoulders, wondering when it will catch up to you, wondering when its pace will quicken so you can no longer outrun it.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“The strangest thing about returning to an enclave that encapsulated your youth is that you feel like nothing should have changed. Like you still have the right to be twenty and carefree and irresponsible. Like you still are twenty and carefree and irresponsible.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“She’s found, after all, that if you force yourself not to think of things, they lose their power; they shift from reality to mirage, from true to almost imaginary. And”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“an average Wednesday in October”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“every night when the hours grew too long”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“Colin grabbed some Amstels at Wawa along the way,”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years

“Dearly beloved, We are gathered here today, To get through this thing called life. —Prince, “Let’s Go Crazy”
― Allison Winn Scotch, In Twenty Years