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You Have a Match QUOTES

You Have a Match QUOTES

1 " This moment of recognition reflected back at me in her face. It's not even something I can see, but something I feel. It's not my mom and my dad or my brothers. It's me. My own confusion, my own fear. She could look like a stranger to me, and I'd still feel it as plainly. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

2 " Eh, it's all fun and games until they swore up and down they were teaching me how to say 'good morning' in Tagalog and I ended up telling Mickey to 'go eat shit.''
Even in the depths of my possibly bottomless self-pity, that gets a laugh out of me.
Leo knocks his shoulder into mine, another reminder of how fast we've filled up the air between us. 'Yeah, yeah, kumain ng tae. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

3 " Most of the things I could wish for I can't have. It's big stuff, like how I wish Poppy were still here and we weren't selling Bean Well. Or medium stuff, like I didn't worry so much about where I stand with Leo and Connie, or I wasn't one ping in my parents' inbox away from getting busted for skipping out on summer school. Or stuff that wells up in me from some place I can usually keep quiet--I wish I were old enough to do whatever I wanted, to go out and take photographs all over the world instead of the same sleepy suburb over and over and over again.
I wish I didn't feel like a problem my parents had to solve. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

4 " he doesn’t like me the way I like him. And if he did once, he doesn’t anymore. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

5 " If you learn to capture a feeling, it’ll always be louder than words. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

6 " You're...you're a forever kind of person to me. You always have been. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

7 " I feel strangely invincible, like the moments happening right now don't count for anything, but somehow count for everything at once. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

8 " But you’re … you’re a forever kind of person to me. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

9 " But you're...you're a forever kind of person to me. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

10 " I was prepared to lose him, maybe. But I wasn’t prepared for what happens after the losing. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

11 " I want you to be happy,' he says.
Of all the things he's ever said to me, this might be the worst. Because I know what would make me happy, and it's not something he can give. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

12 " Even when I am at my worst he knows exactly what to say to soften my edges, still looks at me like I am something precious to him. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

13 " Love makes you do things you thought you never would. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

14 " I breathe in the sticky warmth of the air, the pine and the electricity and the ache of something deeper than I can name, knowing that no view I can capture will ever compare to this feeling—seeing it through my eyes while seeing it through his, letting us both bleed into a world where those two things can be the same. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

15 " I guess this was a way to steal the time back before anyone found out. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

16 " After weeks of working on that Benvolio essay, I have the character’s quote memorized: Soft! I will go along. And if you leave me so, you do me wrong. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

17 " Because sometimes trying to protect people from your own fucked-up decisions is so impossible that there’s no right and wrong way to do it "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

18 " The space I come back to, whether I want it to be or not, won’t be Abby-shaped anymore—or maybe I won’t be the shape of the Abby who left. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

19 " Words always fell short. Made the feeling cheap. Some things, I think, there weren’t supposed to be words for at all. "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match

20 " Savvy lets out a snort that borders on hysterical, gesturing out so widely that I can’t tell if she’s trying to encapsulate the camp or the entire known universe. “You think I’d put this shit show on Instagram? "

― Emma Lord , You Have a Match