Places We've Never Been Quotes

“Have you heard the saying that when God closes a door, he opens a window?” she asked.
“Yes.”
“Sometimes we have to go looking for those windows ourselves, but they’re there. And maybe they turn out better than the door we were about to walk through.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“Maybe we were our truest selves as children, before we let the expectations of everyone else dictate who we should be.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“But failure in life is inevitable. It’s only a problem if we let it keep us from progressing.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“You think I'm not going to remember you when I'm gone? I've loved you for half my life. I'm not going to forget.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“People like the watered-down version of me.” “I like the concentrated version of you.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“You are like sunshine Norah.” He brushed a piece of hair off my temple. “You radiate positive energy, and when that was out of my life, I was in a dark place. It took me a long time to come out of that. And the thought of coming back here, of remembering what it felt like to have you in my life every day only to have to leave again was a hard thought.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“Love is a pretty powerful thing.” “It doesn’t take away all of life’s disappointments, but it can provide a nice place to fall.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“Just remember you love me later, okay?” “You think I’m not going to remember that when I’m gone? I’ve loved you for half my life. I’m not going to forget.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“Skyler was my person. He always had been. My thirteen-year-old self knew it and my seventeen-year-old self knew it even more. It didn’t matter what my mom said, or the hard things we were going to face in the coming years. I knew we’d face them better together.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“Skyler.” I reached out and took his hand. I breathed in and out four times. “That was my secret.” “That you knew?” “No, that I’m in love with you.” “What?” A smile spread across my face. “You heard me.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“I have another secret,” he said, his voice still soft. “I’ve been keeping it for years and these past few weeks have made it hard to hold on to.” “What is it?” I whispered. There must’ve been a full minute of silence, crickets chirping, water flowing, cicadas high-pitched echoing, before he said, “I’m in love with you.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“He smiled his real smile for the first time since he arrived and nostalgia came pouring into my chest, making it even harder to breathe.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“That’s a weird saying, isn’t it? That we grew out of something? Like we’re embarrassed to like something we liked as a child because that means we’re immature or something. I don’t think we have to grow out of things. Maybe we were our truest selves as children, before we let the expectations of everyone else dictate who we should be.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“One person shouldn’t be your everything, Norah. Didn’t you learn that when Skyler left? Branch out. Find more friends. That’s what normal people do.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“I couldn’t shake the suspicion about our parents that I’d told Ezra, and the thought of divorce scared me. Could two people who seemed perfectly happy with each other drop a surprise bomb like that?”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“Nothing. My response was nothing, Willow. I read it and didn’t respond. I remember thinking that I’d ask my mom first and see what she thought. I remember being super disappointed when she said no. But I didn’t tell him that! Instead I forgot to respond at all!”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“Maybe I have trust issues.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“You couldn’t pay me to run,”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“life is inevitable. It’s only a problem if we let it keep us from progressing.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been

“This industry is going to stay just as one-sided as it is if you force women to jump through hoops to prove themselves but men only have to have basic skills and balls.”
― Kasie West, Places We've Never Been