Some Mistakes Were Made Quotes

“When did we get here? At this place of tallied wrongs and rights. This place where we speak the same language but cannot understand each other's words.”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made

“The summer air hugs me and I walk down dark roads without sidewalks and flat land that challenges the stars as both stretch out before me. When I was little I would walk and time the sound of my steps to the beats of my heart. It seems a habit I haven't outgrown. The sky here is the same one in California, but I feel like all these stars know me. They watched me as I grew tall enough to try to reach them. And they saw every single one of my heartbreaks bleed against the dirt here.”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made

“I forgot about this. People who can laugh at shitty things. People who don't think the sky is falling when something small goes wrong.
They call it perspective. Or being jaded. Or worse, a grateful attitude.
Really, it's just survival. A word I hate as much as I own.”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made

“And this is why tears are falling down my cheeks. Not because of Sandry's kindness, but because of all the people who are supposed to be kind and aren't.”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made

“Just—just let me believe that you'll do this with me. That you'll go and we..."
"What about Tucker or someone else?"
"There isn't anyone else. I don't want to see anything without you.”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made

“the feelings that got caught in my throat and strangled my mind as I tried to put words to the sea of emotions that lived under my skin”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made

“Forgiveness isn’t something he cares about; it’s the forgetting that matters. If you forget, then when they do it again, the sins don’t pile up on top of each other. This is what he does. He gets you excited about tiny victories”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made: A Debut YA Romance About Childhood Friends, Betrayal, and Second Chances

“He wants me to tell him how proud I am. Forgiveness isn't something he cares about; it's the forgetting that matters. If you forget, then when they do it again, the sins don't pile up on top of each other. This is what he does. He gets you excited about tiny victories.”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made

“Fine. Last year, you refused to put the cap on the toothpaste in the bathroom after you used it. Now you are squeezing the tube from the middle. In the future, I hope you will be the kind of person who will do neither.”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made: A Debut YA Romance About Childhood Friends, Betrayal, and Second Chances

“A memory of Easton wrapping his hand in mine on the porch finds me. "Me and you." He whispered it to me, with his lips close to my ear and his breath dancing against my skin.”
― Kristin Dwyer, Some Mistakes Were Made