Boys and Girls Like You and Me Quotes

“Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining.

She thought she might start looking for new friends.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“The whole wide world was just a big pile of strangers, thinking all the time about everything they were missing.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“You tell us about your other friends. You feel guilty speaking about them, but you are annoyed, frustrated. You don't always trust their motives. You feel pressured by their demands on you. You're worn out by the effort it takes to be with them, to feign interest in their stream of never-ending problems.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“My whole body felt weak and hollow, like in one moment it might forget how to move, how to stand, how to breathe.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“Today will just be something else that they don't talk about, something else that probably never happened.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

“Love. It is a word that means nothing and everything at the same time.”
― Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories