A Short History of the Girl Next Door Quotes

“She wouldn’t have been Tabby. And I wouldn’t be me. But now, there is no Tabby. And I hate being me.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“Seriously, how can you see a person nearly every day of your life and never think anything of it, then all of a sudden, one day, it’s different? You see that goofy grin a thousand times and just laugh, but goofy grin number 1,001 nearly stops your heart?”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“My inner-movie director has me standing at the grave site holding fresh-picked daisies -Tabby’s favorite- in the rain, like always, and I want to punch him in his stupid fucking face.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“The funeral was really sad, but Chinatown fucking killed this moo shu tonight!”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“But I am not a competent social being.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“On the mind does not equal out the mouth.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“What an awesome human being.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“However long I get, if I can spend time with the people I love, I don’t really care what the point is.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“It’s our memories that make us who we are -those moments that, for whatever reason, big or small, stick in our brains, that make up our stories.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“The lids are closed, and it hits me that they’ll never be opened again. I’ll never see Tabby’s face again.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“Why are people not burning this fucking place to the ground?”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“I still love that girl.
God, I love that girl.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“Mom asked me this morning if I’d made my New Year’s resolution yet. I told her it’s to get a tattoo on my butt cheek of half a heart, like those friendship necklaces, and trip was going to get the other half-we’re still arguing over who gets the Best butt cheek and who gets the Friends cheek. Each has its own issues in isolation. I feel like there’s a poem in there somewhere.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“I can’t say what’s going to happen down the road, or what either of you are going to want in your lives. But remember, the best relationships are based on friendship.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“But at the end of the night, I’m still going to wish it was Tabby.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“It's our memories that make us who we are - those moments that, for whatever reason, big or small, stick in our brains, that make up our stories.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“Sometimes it's good to step out of your own life for awhile. Call a time-out.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“There's a fine line between laughter and pain. And I think, sometimes, it's the only thing you can do with your pain. Sometimes things suck so bad that you have to laugh at it.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“I need to get a restraining order against this jaded movie director in my brain.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“Why, yes, Matt. I went to a twelve-hour dance-athon by myself. In fact, it’s still going. I’m there right now, doing an awkward step-slide behind a group of upperclassmen in a dark corner of the gym. I’m having the time of my life.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“And no, shitty movie director, he doesn’t wrap me in an emotional, tear-soaked bro-hug at the foul line, ball dropping meaningfully between our feet on the floor, our shared love of Tabby bringing us together in our loss. (You’re still fired, by the way.)”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“But she’s left an indelible mark on mine. A lasting effect on everything I do.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“But I don’t want her to be a memory. I don’t want her death to be the shitty part of my happy movie.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“I’ll never be over it.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“It’s like its all been left on pause, but no one’s coming back to finish the movie. Their screen went black.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“I see one more part of me that’s gone.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“While the rest of us were playing Xbox or deciding which new outfit we’d wear for the first day back, Tabby didn’t make it home. Her story stopped on a dark, icy road, without any meaning or closure or resolution of any kind. Like the pages of the book were ripped out mid-chapter, page 62, and just thrown away.
But what was on that last page..”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“Fate can suck my ass, too.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“Guess what, buddy boy? My notebook’s also empty. So you can suck my ass, too.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door

“The Ballad of Maurice J. Lester, Carnival Ride Operator.’ This may be my best poem yet.”
― Jared Reck, A Short History of the Girl Next Door