The People We Keep Quotes

“If someone changes so much that they're barely the same person, who are you even missing?”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“We have people we get to keep, who won’t ever let us go. And that’s the most important part.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“I wonder if maybe all you do is meet people & lose them & your smile fades the further you go because you have to carry the space they leave. Maybe it all turns to old pictures on a bookshelf, engaged rings, memories of sticking stars to a ceiling & maybe the space gets bigger & heavier every year.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“I say that it's amazing how much you can miss people you only got to be with for one tiny perfect bit of time; how a place where you barely got to live can be the closest thing you've ever had to home.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“You're the gift that came from two broken people. They were weak, and hurt, and cowardly, and somehow managed to make this miracle girl who is so full of piss and vinegar that she survived it all.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“The best way to keep your heart from getting broken is not to get your hopes up in the first place.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“I think maybe everyone is scared to be alone,” I tell her. “Maybe when you get down to it, that’s why everybody does everything. Maybe all we’re doing is trying to be less alone.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“I want to believe there will still be newness in the world for me. That it's not all faded and dusty.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“We all have our weepy wine nights,” he says. “It’s what makes us human.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“It's easy to fall in love with someone when you need them, but that doesn't make it real or right.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“It’s a mayflower,” she tells me. “It’s the good stuff that comes after too many storms.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“I like him. I swear, I do. But it’s hard to like someone. It’s a job that’s never quite finished.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“If you’re in survival mode you can keep problems buried, because the way you grew up, that wasn’t okay. When you upend your life, you don’t have to sit with how unfair it was. And whatever drama you come up with won’t be worse than the anger and hurt you’re carrying around, because that was the original hurt. That’s the deepest cut.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“I wonder if maybe all you do is meet people and lose them and your smile fades the further you go because you have to carry the space they leave.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“My well of worry for you goes all the way to the core of the Earth, girlie.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“Some things get written into your body and your mind can’t reason them away.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“It's so weird, the way that even the most ordinary looking people can hide things.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“You gotta learn the ropes. And if you know the ropes, it's your job to teach them.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“Before I leave, I bury my father’s cracked guitar pick under the rocks by the shore, because it feels like the best way to say goodbye to the person I wanted him to be.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“We have people we get to keep, who won’t ever let us go. And that’s the most important part. That’s what’s true.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“People can do so many horrible things to make themselves feel important, so if he feels important from being kind, he’s better than most.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“The whole reason people like me is that I always leave a little too soon.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“I don't want to think about all the things that would be different if I'd stayed. It's too hard to pick apart what I might have gained from what I would have lost.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“When you have happy accidents, it’s best to own them. They don’t happen often enough.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“Two days later we were at the boardwalk. She ran straight into the waves with all her clothes on. I did too, dunking my head under water so she wouldn’t notice my tears. I felt like she gave me the ocean. Like all of it was ours.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“There won't ever be an us, but he'll never forget me.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“I lied,' I say to Ethan. 'And I left you.'
'And I love you anyway,' Ethan says.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“I say that it’s amazing how much you can miss people you only got to be with for one tiny little perfect bit of time; how a place where you barely got to live can be the closest thing you’ve ever had to home.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“If I act like it’s not a problem, it won’t be.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“It’s easy to fall in love with someone when you need them, but that doesn’t make it real or right.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep