You Have a Match Quotes

“If you learn to capture a feeling, it’ll always be louder than words.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“You're...you're a forever kind of person to me. You always have been.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“I feel strangely invincible, like the moments happening right now don't count for anything, but somehow count for everything at once.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“This moment of recognition reflected back at me in her face. It's not even something I can see, but something I feel. It's not my mom and my dad or my brothers. It's me. My own confusion, my own fear. She could look like a stranger to me, and I'd still feel it as plainly.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“But you’re … you’re a forever kind of person to me.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“Love makes you do things you thought you never would.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“he doesn’t like me the way I like him. And if he did once, he doesn’t anymore.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“I wish you saw yourself the way i see you”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“Maybe they were in some kind of secret society. Something mega embarrassing. It was the nineties, right? What was embarrassing in the nineties?"
"Uh. Everything?”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“I was prepared to lose him, maybe. But I wasn’t prepared for what happens after the losing.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“Even when I am at my worst he knows exactly what to say to soften my edges, still looks at me like I am something precious to him.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“I want you to be happy,' he says.
Of all the things he's ever said to me, this might be the worst. Because I know what would make me happy, and it's not something he can give.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“Words always fell short. Made the feeling cheap. Some things, I think, there weren’t supposed to be words for at all.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“I breathe in the sticky warmth of the air, the pine and the electricity and the ache of something deeper than I can name, knowing that no view I can capture will ever compare to this feeling—seeing it through my eyes while seeing it through his, letting us both bleed into a world where those two things can be the same.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“We’re both trying to catch up to people who seem like they’re already gone.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“...things are always going to move for different people at different times. You've gotta be patient. Set your own pace.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“After weeks of working on that Benvolio essay, I have the character’s quote memorized: Soft! I will go along. And if you leave me so, you do me wrong.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“The last time I saw a Prius going that fast, the REI flagship downtown was having a garage sale.” I sink my teeth into the protein bar.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“Savvy lets out a snort that borders on hysterical, gesturing out so widely that I can’t tell if she’s trying to encapsulate the camp or the entire known universe. “You think I’d put this shit show on Instagram?”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“Because sometimes trying to protect people from your own fucked-up decisions is so impossible that there’s no right and wrong way to do it”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“Friends?'
The word seemed cheap... It was never going to fully describe what we were to each other. But that wasn't what the word was doing right then. It wasn't a definition; it was a boundary. One I needed to accept.
'Friends.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“But you're...you're a forever kind of person to me.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“Because sometimes trying to protect people from your own fucked-up decisions is so impossible that there’s no right and wrong way to do it—everything will explode in the end.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“He’d show me how different lenses captured different perspectives, and how no two photos of the same thing were ever alike, simply because of the person taking them.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“If you learn to capture a feeling, he told me, it’ll always be louder than words.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“I feel the full force of what happened a year ago, and a staggering appreciation for everything that has happened since. For the way my days then look almost nothing like my days now. For the little things that snowballed into big things, that gave me the life I have today.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“My life might feel like chaos, but it's never reached a level where one conversation with Connie couldn't bring it back into focus.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“My life might feel like chaos, but it's never reached a level where one conversation with [Safiya] couldn't bring it back into focus.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“I guess this was a way to steal the time back before anyone found out.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“I feel strangely invincible, like the moments happening right now don’t count for anything, but somehow count for everything at once.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match