If Tomorrow Doesn't Come Quotes

“She was so bright she could belong to everyone and no one, just like the sun, just like the stars.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“I had always known grief was a type of loneliness, but when I went to college, I learned loneliness was a type of grief.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“We were never just friends, were we?’
I tried to remember. Had there ever been a time when my heart didn’t race around her? When my hands weren’t drawn to her hands? When fighting with her didn’t feel like the end of the world? When she wasn’t untangling my life? When we weren’t tangled together?
‘No,’ I said. ‘I guess we were never just.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“There's nothing to know." Except I'm in love with you, I can never tell you that, and I know you'll be happier without me.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“It's not a problem to be nineteen and unsure of what you want to do with the rest of your life.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Loving you is a reflex.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Thank you from the very bottom of my heart to you, reader, for taking the time to read Avery’s story. My life—and this world—will always be better with you in it. Tomorrow will come. It will, I swear it. I’ll meet you in the morning.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“If I was drowning on land, in oxygen, maybe the floor of the river was the only place I’d be able to breathe. [...] I thought, again, I’m so tired. I’m such a disappointment. I don’t want to do this anymore. I could kill myself. I should. I might. I want to.
But, no, I can fix this, still. I just have to try harder.
But I could.
And I might.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“My whole chest hurt with yearning. I'd wanted this from the moment I'd watched her dance without me at prom.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Her knee touched mine, and it was all I could think about, but neither of us moved to put inches between us.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Oceans, rivers, they're like hope for what's beyond us. But lakes remind me there's beauty where we are.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“But who even am I? I feel like I'm ten people and no one all at once. I show different sides of myself to different groups of people.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“I can't stop thinking about how a star is going to kill us,' she said, her voice cracking, 'I don't want to die. I was just becoming myself.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Did I believe I could love all of who I was, including my screaming flaws, my biggest failures, and my cruel, relentless brain?
I wasn't sure, but I could choose to try.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“She looked so much like me, not just in her coloring but in a certain expression she wore. I'd seen it in the mirror so many times, not sadness, exactly, but an exhaustion that had nothing to do with the body. It was like there should be a light there and there wasn't. It was like she should be dreaming, but she couldn't.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Actually, yes. I try to reach outside myself, even when I'm alone. Inside myself, well. That's a darker tale.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“We were coated in sweat, smelling like each other, pressing our skin together, running our hands through each other's hair.
The electric lamp swung above us. It was the best thing I had ever done in this body. Cass was me, and I was Cass, and we were maybe dying. And here, I thought, here I am. Finally alive.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“You know what's funny, though?"
"What?"
"In every version of my future, I see myself back here in New Hampshire in the end. With you." My heart sank a little. I was starting to realize more and more that was an ending I couldn't give her. As if on cue, a loon sang sadly nearby.
"You don't want to come back here. You deserve the world, Cass," I said.
She slung her arm around me. "You too, Ave. But you should know - in the movie of my life, you're in every frame.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Kissing her felt like the answer to every question I had ever asked. It felt like the period at the end of a breathless sentence. It felt like we were giants, like I could reach up to swat the asteroid from the sky and we could fold into each other like that forever, so big nothing could destroy us.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“All my life I'd been telling people I love them. I'd been so careful with those three words.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“You know, you can't ask the universe for what you want; you have to demand it.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“The world may end someday, but not yet. Not today. For now, we’re all here together, and that can be enough. Tomorrow can be different. Tomorrow can be better. If we let it come”.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Why do you want to leave me, then?” “I don’t”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“The wind caught us, took us out. My hair haloed around me. It was winter, but Cass was still golden. She smiled so easily. Can you imagine? In my life, I got to love her.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“...I read beautiful books I'd been meaning to get to while leaned up against the bark of an ancient tree. I felt alone. I felt like everyone was there. I talked to them out loud when I missed them the most. There were so many people to miss, but my cells were still. My breath came steady.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“For a second, I was back on the dock of the river with the ice on my skin. And then came a rush of my tears, tears that didn't hurt this time. I imagined myself thawing, cracking into my own chest with a shovel, planting something. And that was what I planned to do.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“I could let them be broken. I could be broken too. It wasn't anyone's fault, and I didn't have to fix it. The world was ending, but hadn't it always been?”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“Good luck, brave and beautiful strangers.
Aren't we the lucky ones
walking into the night, all eyes on the same star?
Aren't we the lucky ones?
We were here for a time to dream.
We still are.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“I love you," she screamed over the rushing air, "because you're my home."

"I love you because you have been my greatest adventure," I yelled. Cass smiled and held my hands harder.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“We held each other and cried. We spent the night in the barn, and everything was holy. And when we finally fell asleep, tangled together for the last time, I realized I was crying not because of our goodbye or our sorrow or our fear. I was crying because everything was so beautiful, and for once, I knew how to feel it.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come