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You've Reached Sam QUOTES

1 " Only I reamin running further down the fields until the voices calling me sound far away. All I hear are my own heavy breaths and the sound of my heart pounding in my ears.

Another breeze comes and lifts the lantern even higher, moving it past the line of the mountains. And it keeps on going no matter how hard I'm running. But eventually I become so tired and out of breath, I can't run anymore. So I stop and stand there, gazing up, watching it vanish into the sky with all of the others until I can no longer recognize it from the millions of stars.

The lantern is gone. I lost it. I can't lose you, too. Not again. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

2 " I try not to daydream anymore. It only tricks me with images of Sam, filling me with the possibility that we can still be together, that there's still a future for us, until reality comes in like a storm to blow everything away. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

3 " We are two parts of a song. He is the music. I am the words. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

4 " If the ending is this painful, I don’t know if this was worth it all. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

5 " I missed you. I missed you infinity. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

6 " The world keeps moving, no matter what happens to you. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

7 " Life will pass right by you,” she says, her eyes focused on the road. “And you end up missing the little things, the moments you don’t think matter—but they do. Moments that make you forget about everything else. Just like with your writing,” she adds out of nowhere. “You don’t write to get to the end. You write because you enjoy doing it. You write and don’t want it to end. Does that make some sense? "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

8 " She said that, sometimes, dreams are the opposite of what they show us. That we shouldn't understand them exactly as they are. It can mean something in our life is out of balance. Or maybe we're holding in to much. Especially when we lose someone, dreams show us the opposite of what it is we need to find balance again. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

9 " We have too many voices inside our heads. You have to pick out the ones that mean something to you. What story do you want to tell? "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

10 " Letting go isn’t about forgetting. It’s balancing moving forward with life, and looking back from time to time, remembering the people in it. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

11 " I listen to the message again. I listen to it on the way home, and several more times before I fall asleep. I listen to it the next morning when Mika comes over and I replay it for her. I listen to it again that night and the day after that. I listen to it on the days I miss Sam most and want to hear his voice again. I listen to his voice mail until I have it memorized, and I don’t need to play it anymore. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

12 " I wish I was there with you. I wish I could see the look on your face. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

13 " I always feel at home when I’m in the store. I could spend hours and hours in here. There’s a comfort in being surrounded by walls of books. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

14 " Hey. Just to make sure I beat everyone to it, I wanted to write in this first. I hope that’s some more proof of how much I’m in love with you. I still can’t believe it. How did three years go by so fast? It feels like yesterday I was sitting on the bus behind you trying to build the courage to say something. It’s crazy to think there was a time before we knew each other. A time before “Sam and Julie.” Or “Julie and Sam”? I’ll let you decide that one. I know you can’t wait to leave this place, but I’m gonna miss it. I get it, though. Your ideas were always too big for a small town, and everyone here knows it. But I’m happy your path somehow made you stop in Ellensburg along the way. So you and I could meet each other. Maybe it was supposed to happen, you know? I feel like my life didn’t start until I met you, Julie. You’re the best thing to happen to this small town. To me. I realize it doesn’t matter where we’re going next, as long as we’re together. I’ll be honest. I used to be scared of leaving home. Now I can’t wait to move on and make new memories with you. Just don’t forget the ones we made here. Especially when you make it big. And whatever happens, promise you won’t forget me, okay? Anyway, I love you, Julie, and always will. Yours forever, Sam "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

15 " Another world, another life, another thing to keep to myself. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

16 " If I listen closely, I can almost hear the hum of his guitar playing somewhere in the distance. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

17 " For a long moment, I can feel him lying there besides me. If I turn my head to look, I’d see him with his arms tucked behind his head, wearing his plaid shirt, his eyes opened wide at the sky, his beautiful dark hair, that handsome smile on his face. But I don’t dare to look, because I’m scared no one will be there. So I just stare straight up at the stars, and allow myself to keep pretending. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

18 " I want you to know … if I could do it all over again, I would. Every second of it.” If the ending is this painful, I don’t know if this was worth it all. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

19 " There are so many moments I wish I could relive again. Especially the smaller ones. The quieter ones that we often don’t think about. Those are the moments I look back and miss the most. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam

20 " I don’t want to open my eyes,” Sam says. But the ride is about to come to its end. I can feel it. I squeeze my eyes tighter, hoping to stop time or at least slow it down. Because I don’t want to open mine, either. I don’t want to lose him. I want to keep them shut and live in this memory of us forever. I don’t want to open my eyes and see a world without Sam. But sometimes you just wake up. No matter how hard you try not to. "

― Dustin Thao , You've Reached Sam