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1 " Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
2 " Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do? "
3 " People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else. "
4 " Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? "
5 " Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy,” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , This Is What Happy Looks Like (This is What Happy Looks Like, #1)
6 " Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers. "
7 " Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label -- full count, earned run, perfect game -- and there's a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There's no room for confusion and Ryan wishes now that everything could be so straightforward. But then Nick pulls her closer, and she rests her head on his chest, and nothing seems more important that this right here. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , The Comeback Season
8 " She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward. "
9 " People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again. "
10 " But it was different, somehow, to be reading it here, where the actual events had taken place all those hundreds of thousands of years ago. That was the thing about books, she was realizing; they could take you somewhere else entirely, it was true. But it wasn't the same thing as actually going there yourself. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , The Geography of You and Me
11 " It had always been the two of them through everything -every adventure and every expedition- and now there was this awful distance between them, and she tried not to think about all the stories they were missing out on, all the litle moments and bigger milestones that had happened over the past few weeks without the other knowing "
12 " Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , You Are Here
13 " But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of the world wouldn't match up to his dreams. "
14 " There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark. "
15 " I might not say it, but I obviously show you how I feel,” she says. “Why do the words have to be so important?”“They just are,” he says, standing up and brushing off the back of his jeans. “Not because you’re saying them, but because you’re not. "
― Jennifer E. Smith , Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
16 " After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone. "
17 " You could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret-by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out. "
― Jennifer E. Smith
18 " It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it. "
19 " No matter how long it’s been or how far you’ve drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two people in the world whose job it was to see you, to find you, to recognize you and reel you back in. No matter what. "
20 " The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked. "
