The Opposite of Here Quotes

“It's just not always that easy, right? To control what you think about. Who you think about.”
― Tara Altebrando, The Opposite of Here

“Sick with the impossibility of it all, with the reality of how small a person is. How at any second you can get struck down by a bullet or a tree; how a person can look so very tiny against the world, how each of us is nothing more than a speck”
― Tara Altebrando, The Opposite of Here

“It's impossible to explain, isn't it? Why anyone likes anyone or anything? You just do. You're saying that you're not responsible for who you like? Nora asks. Yeah, I say. I guess? I mean it's either there or it isn't right?”
― Tara Altebrando, The Opposite of Here

“You can't just give up on a movie during the dark night of the soul, he'd said. What's that? I asked. That's the point in a film when all hope is lost and the protagonists must dig deeper than ever before to prevail against the odds stacked against them.”
― Tara Altebrando, The Opposite of Here

“I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black/ It's hard to dance with the devil on your back/ They buried my body and they thought I'd gone/ But I am the Dance and I still go on.”
― Tara Altebrando, The Opposite of Here

“I like being surprised by someone. Surprised, too, by myself.”
― Tara Altebrando, The Opposite of Here

“She told me once that she sometimes feels caught between two worlds at school -like she has to decide who she is instead of just being who she is.”
― Tara Altebrando, The Opposite of Here