The Start of Me and You Quotes

“In friendship we are all debtors. We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Knowing what happens is different from knowing how it happens. And the getting there is the best part.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Because with true friends, no one is keeping score. But it still feels good to repay them – even in the tiniest increments.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Love extra, even if it means you hurt extra,too”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Like you had been drowning, and the book was air.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Nothing, not even sadness could be greater than the sum of us.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Ryan Chase was my eighth-grade collage, aspirational and wide-eyed. But Max was the first bite of grilled cheese on a snowy day, the easy fit of my favorite jeans, that one old song that made it onto every playlist. Peanut-butter Girl Scout cookies instead of an ornate cake. Not glamorous or idealized or complicated. Just me.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“We're all Elizabeths when we need to be.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Okay," he said, leaning closer to me. "I have a proposition for you." Dear God, let it be marriage, I thought.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“You're always preparing yourself for the thing that is most likely to happen, instead of hoping for the thing that you most want to happen.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what’s going to happen. But knowing what happens isn’t the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Sometimes we get it wrong the first time. But you only have to get it right once.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Darkness might keep flooding in, but I finally had just enough light to find the way back to myself.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Live your life.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“I think I've loved you since that first day.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“I know it's difficult to bare your heart, but it's the least stupid thing in the world.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“The point is that we already know it doesn’t work out, but we reread them anyway, because the good stuff that comes before the ending is worth it.” This”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“I think I might love you too.

Oh, please. You do.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“I may be stumbling through these steps, but at least I'm stumbling forward.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“We all owe each other for a thousand small kindnesses, for little moments of grace in the chaos.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“He grinned. "I knew you loved me, Tessa."

Tessa's cheeks reddened. "One more word, and I WILL have Morgan give you the consent lecture.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“I wanted to live in Lucy and Ricky’s world, where the blunders of life were righted in one neat half hour. They made it look easy.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“I don’t remember that.” He shook his head. “Of course you don’t. You were in another world, completely occupied with whatever you were reading.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Our town was too big for people to know everything about you, but just small enough to clench down on one defining moment like teeth on prey. Won the spelling bee in fourth grade? You are Dictionary Girl forever. Laughed a little too hard in sixth grade? You will still be the Guy Who Peed His Pants as you walk across the stage to receive your diploma.

And I was the Girl Whose Boyfriend Drowned.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“Sure, QuizBowl wasn't a cool activity to join and, yeah, the idea of answering difficult questions in front of an audience terrified me. But it wasn't anything like the fear that accompanied my drowning nightmare - harrowing and visceral. No, this fear made me feel fizzy. Hopeful.
In fact, this fear felt like waking up do discover I am still here.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“I used to think rewatching and rereading were embarrassingly boring pastimes. But there is something to be said for how comforting it is to already know what happens. There is no such luxury in real life. Soon”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“It was easy for me to be honest with him because there was nothing to lose.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“More of my life has been affected by his absence than his presence, and that's a strange thing to deal with.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You

“This was never about getting there fast. This was about being sure of my steps forward. They always call it falling in love, but for me? It was also a choice.”
― Emery Lord, The Start of Me and You