We Wish You Luck Quotes

“. . . reading the last line of a perfectly written book. The kind of line you never saw coming but know, as soon as you read it, is the only line the book could've ended with.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“It's still irresistible, the idea that we meant anything to them, given how much they meant to us. How much they mean to us still.

None of it had anything to do with us.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“She had a sort of wild, dangerous intelligence that was often at the root of the trouble she got into, and she saw in him a similar intelligence, a certain way of looking at the world, that had settled in him in a way that it had not quite settled in her, and in a way that she probably hoped it might one day, despite a confidence that was as wild as her intelligence. If there was anyone who might've inspired her to change course, it was him, despite her normal distaste and disregard for most forms of authority.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“But I've been paying attention for a while now, and I think there's also actual ordinary. People who never wonder if this is all there is, and have never gnashed their teeth at what a raw deal this whole thing inevitably becomes at some point or another, sooner or later.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“He said it was strange, how we were shaped by so many things we would never remember and had no control over.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“People only seem to think something's a problem when it's a problem for them.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“He had the kind of shrunken posture that promised something terrible had happened to him.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“She loved it the way you can love only a certain number of arrangements of words across the span of a life . . . we had all loved something—some poem or passage or cluster of words—as much as Leslie loved Hannah's story.

It was the reason we were all there.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“You seem to be someone who always wants a little more.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“The kind of grief they must have felt, if they felt as bad as we did, will find you wherever you go.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“They were trying . . . to protect themselves from any further injury by turning away from the world altogether.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“He wasn't alone because he hadn't been able to find friends, but because he didn't trust anyone enough to want to.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“There was always a haunted quality about the place, even before anything bad happened.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“We must have smelled something feral and broken and searing to the touch in what she said, though, instead of just her normal bravado, because of all the things we might be tempted to hold against Leslie, both as individuals and as a group, this workshop isn't one of them. Like the plan she eventually set in motion - one so daring and foolish and bold we still hardly believe it now - it was an unthinkable overreaction that somehow felt just right.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck

“There are those of us who would call this an underdog story, but we can't agree on which of the characters would really, technically qualify as an underdog.”
― Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck