We Are Lost and Found Quotes

“He said he didn’t even know that anyone our age was paying attention to what was going on.” A chill goes through me. Being afraid of some enemy you can’t see, regardless of how big or deadly is one thing. Starting to recognize the people lying dead on the battlefield is something else entirely.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“I didn’t do this to piss you off. It’s just who I am. And I can’t ignore what’s going on in the world. People are dying. How can I just stand by and watch? How could anyone?”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“You’ll find a way to tell your story,” she says.
“But I don’t have a story,” I respond.
“Everyone has a story, Michael. Maybe you just don’t know the plot of yours yet.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“I want to change the world,” he says, horrified. “I want to be true to myself. I have no wish to be in a box.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“No one expects you to stay in a bed once you've found a scorpion in it.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“And at the end, I'm left only with this: I don't know what I want to do with my life. And that might be the most terrifying thing of all.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“Gabriel might be sick and not even know it. Connor might be sick and not telling me. I don’t know how to protect them. I don’t know how to protect myself. How do I live my life without becoming a statistic?”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“We need research, not hysteria.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“I wonder — is everyone a mass of insecurity? Even James?”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“And while he talks, I can picture it. This community, this family he's replaced us with. These people who can dance all night fueled by rhythm and freedom, drugs and each other. These people who have grabbed their lives away from everyone who has told them they're wrong and they can't and they're damaged. These people who have made themselves into who they want to be, even if it's just for one night.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“Is this what Connor felt for Tony? This rush and hum that takes over my whole body when I even think of him? Is this why my brother did the loudest, most public thing he could think of for a relationship he knew probably wasn't going to last? Because he couldn't hide the enormity of it anymore? Because it was so unfair that he'd even have to try?”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“Time is a circle surrounded by a growing storm. And we're in the eye of it.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“Love is…
…all you need
…a battlefield
…Hell
…in the air
…evol spelled backward
…for losers
…the drug
…all around
…all we have left
And I wonder if the answer really matters.
And if that last one is true.
And if it is, if love is even enough.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“I understand James’ fear in my head. How do you argue with something like that? But it’s hard to think that I’m really at risk. I haven’t had sex and I don’t do drugs and I can barely find Haiti on a map. But who really knows what will happen in the future, right? I mean, that’s the problem, isn’t it? No one knows.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“Or maybe for not even considering that something as ugly as this plague could ever touch James who is young and healthy and beautiful.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“I guess I get to write my own future,” he says.
This sums up the difference between me and James. I would have assumed that a cookie with no fortune meant I was going to be hit by a truck.”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found

“I believe in an equal opportunity God,”
― Helene Dunbar, We Are Lost and Found