The Difference Between Somebody and Someone Quotes

“There had been so many times over the last few months when I’d told myself we were at rock bottom. Things couldn’t possibly get worse. However, being engulfed by the flames of hell once didn’t mean you were exempt from them in the future. The odds of lightning striking the same place twice were so small it should have been an impossibility. But it must have happened at least once for there to have been odds at all.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“You didn’t live with two men for as long as I had and not learn a thing or two. When it came to jokes about sex, men were still teenage boys. It was all fun and games until a woman—especially one they considered a sister—turned it back around on them.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“There was no use in fighting with him. My family might as well have been surgically implanted into my ass after the plane crash.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“It made no sense, her showing up at McMurphy’s like that. Atlanta was a big city.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“We all know Mom can’t keep a secret. Telling her is cheaper than announcing it on a billboard but has the same community reach.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Ah. The strong, silent type. Clearly, my only course of action was to continue babbling.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Remi Grey.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“The day we’d met, I’d thought it was fate. She was perfect. Her laugh. Her chaos. The levity I felt in her presence. It took approximately an hour for me to fall in love. Deep, unwavering, life-altering love. The kind that burrows into your bones and rewrites your DNA.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“she’d been a ghost of the woman I’d fallen in love with for months.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“just when I thought my scarred and tortured heart was unable to break any more, pain from the explosion in my chest rocked me to the core.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Maybe the woman I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with would stop fucking trying to die.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“hope clouded reality. It made me believe that anything was possible.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“having her there was the only time my place ever truly felt like home.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“How are your arms?” She didn’t mean anything by it, but guilt still slashed through me. I’d been luckier than most.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Katherine hadn’t been in a wheelchair the day she’d boarded flight 672. I’d never been brave enough to ask for the specifics of her injuries, but they were extensive. In the early days of her emails, she’d updated us all from a hospital bed. Then a rehabilitation center. Recently, she’d sent photos of home renovations to accommodate her wheelchair. Her communications were always upbeat and filled with positivity, but it was times like that when I couldn’t imagine how she hadn’t become an erupting volcano of bitterness.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Less than an hour later, Sky High Airways settled to the tune of fifty-six million dollars. It still wasn’t enough.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Bowen saved Sean’s family after the crash. They were pinned under a big piece of debris, still trapped in their seats. Bowen somehow flipped it off them. Mom, dad, two young boys. An entire generation survived because of him.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Bowen Michaels is something of a mystery.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“it was times like that when I couldn’t imagine how she hadn’t become an erupting volcano of bitterness.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“We had this really fun relationship where we took turns emotionally drowning for each other. It was super healthy.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“I hadn’t mentioned it to Aaron because he would have rather been shot out of a cannon into a pool of hungry sharks than attend a “survivor’s mixer.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Holy shit. The most gorgeous golden-brown eyes I’d ever seen collided with mine. And I don’t mean that our eyes simply met. I mean, they met and locked and I somehow ended up pregnant in the span of one blink.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“we were all twenty-nine, successful, and still living together.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“no two people on the plane had had the same experience. The minute those wheels hit the ground, our lives were ripped apart. We came home to the same house. Slept in rooms that were across the hall. Quietly ate breakfast at the same table each morning. But just like the cabin of that plane, something had been broken.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“He was one of the strongest men I’d ever met, but since the accident, he’d been struggling. He had nightmares—a lot. Anxiety that crept up on him from out of nowhere. And sometimes, he just got overwhelmed with life in general.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Six months earlier, Aaron and I had been on a flight home from Colorado when, due to improper balance and faulty landing gear that never should have been approved for takeoff, our plane broke apart upon landing. Twenty-seven people survived, but even without physical scars, no one was immune to the catastrophic trauma of a disaster like the one we’d experienced.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“Mark’s eternal bachelor status, Aaron’s fear of commitment, and my inability to meet a man who even remotely piqued my interest.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“All our financial situations had changed over the years. Mark’s bar, The Rusty Nail, was thriving. Aaron was computer engineering at a large company downtown, and as of recently, I had earned my brokerage license and opened my own real estate company. We could all afford our own places now, and each one would have been bigger than the eighteen-hundred-square-foot rental we shared. But there was something unbelievably comfortable about our arrangement that made us all stay.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“My friends stopped talking to me, my parents got a divorce, and my mom and Mr. Ruiz moved to Texas. Being that I was fifteen with my world falling apart, I chose to stay in the only place I felt at home: with my dad and his free cheese fries.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone

“My perfect little life came crumbling down when news broke of my mom’s affair with our married Spanish teacher.”
― Aly Martinez, The Difference Between Somebody and Someone