Top 40 Adi Alsaid Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “People hurt each other. It happens to everyone. Intentionally, unintentionally, regretfully or not. It’s a part of what we do as people. The beauty is that we have the ability to heal and forgive.”

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2. “Then that’s what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we’re not living.”

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3. “Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.”

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4. “Well, it’s part of a longer quote, this really beautiful passage about how the best you can ever do is to leave the world a little better than you found it. It doesn’t matter how you do it. Invent a new toaster or reach out a helping hand; just, you know, leave it a little better than you found it.” Dave.”

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5. “To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you.”

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6. “The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden and purple, the ocean a darker shade of violet.”

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7. “When you don’t have any reason to think of days as weekdays or weekends, you start to realize that all days are pretty much the same. And that kind of gives you the freedom to do whatever you want. It’s a lot easier to seize the day than it is to seize a Tuesday.”

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8. “But you know what I mean, don’t you? How sometimes you feel like you’re the only person in the world who is seeing something?”

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9. “What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?”

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10. “I don’t think I chose wrong,” Dave finally said, weakly. “I don’t know if I made a choice at all.”

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11. “Seize the Tuesday.”

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12. “And maybe the only way to find what you’re looking for is to get lost along the way.”

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13. “I’m a pretty forgetful guy, but everything she says, I remember. I remember what colour her hair ribbon was when we met on the first day of fifth grade. I remember that she loves orchids because they look delicate but aren’t, really. From a single postcard she sent me when traveling with her family two summers ago. I remember what my name looks like in her handwriting.”

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14. “As long as we don’t get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I’ll be okay.”

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15. “Love traveled, it ran, it covered ground, eager to see more, do more. It was two people keeping pace with each other.”

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16. “I don’t know where the hell you came from, but I’m glad you did. I’d have been lost without you.”

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17. “I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.”

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18. “I’m usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven’t been to before, so it’s a way to not look weird. If I find something I’ve read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.”

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19. “Human beings are more or less formulas. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely. Just like things are rarely always true or never true, we aren’t ever exactly one thing or another. We are more or less.”

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20. “I like red – don’t get me wrong. But I have a deep appreciation for anything that is willing to be totally and utterly itself. If you’re going to be red, well, then, be red, goddamnit. From your steering wheel to your hubcaps, be red.”

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21. “I’ve heard you talk about this town like it’s the only thing you love aside from fixing cars. People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you is going to take it away from you.”

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22. “If we all die and our lives are forgotten, it is these conservations that make an impression on the deletable history of the world.”

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23. “The next morning Dave’s hair not only looked like puke, but like puke that had been allowed to sit out overnight.”

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24. “Sometimes I felt like I was addicted to stories, and I was giving normal people a chance to get theirs out there, even if it was just a fraction of them, even if it was just a snippet in a notebook that would never make it into the world at large.”

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25. “Well, everyone needs at least one long road trip in their lives.”

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26. “It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.”

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27. “Julia thought about her mom – how Julia had, in many ways, done the list for her mom’s sake, and how little that would mean to her mom.”

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28. “He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind of girl who could make you think your life was not complete unless she was in it.”

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29. “Leave the world a little better than you found it.”

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30. “Tuxedos were meant for the glamour of nighttime, and Dave looked forward to when the sun would set and the tuxedo would finally fit perfectly.”

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31. “Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and yanking you out into reality, smells enter your dreams with a silent knock and a polite “Excuse me?”

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32. “Love was lazy as hell.”

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33. “No point in living a life less ordinary if you don’t know what the other side looks like.”

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34. “He meant to bury himself in work right away, but against instinct he stole another glance. How long would the memory of her face haunt him? Days? Weeks?”

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35. “Julia practically woke up laughing, and she refused to let Dave go until her dads saw his hair.”

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36. “I don’t really ever have to tell myself to seize the day. It’s just, whenever I’m not, I feel like I’m slowly disintegrating or something. Like my soul is itching, and if I don’t actively live my life, it’ll never stop.”

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37. “But there was something about this girl that made him want to hear her opinions on everything, hear about her day, tell her about his own.”

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38. “Love was lazy as hell. Love laid around in bed, warm from the sheets and the sunlight pouring into the room. Love was too lazy to get up to close the blinds. Love was too comfortable to get up and go pee. Love took too many naps, it watched TV, but not really, because it was too busy kissing and napping. Love was also funny, which somehow made the bed more comfortable, the laughter warming the sheets, softening the mattress and the lovers’ skin.”

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39. “Well done, Hudson thought to himself. Keep on talking about murderers; that’s the perfect way to make a good impression.”

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40. “Weeks, he thought to himself. I’ll be thinking about that face for weeks.”

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41. “She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.”

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42. “You can’t have smart people lingering around for too long in horror movies. Otherwise they come up with solutions and not enough people die.” “Good point,” Dave said.”

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43. “All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.”

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44. “Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely.”

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45. “Then Emma appears at my side, work shirt unbuttoned, a baby-blue tank top underneath. She smells like lavender and lemongrass, like a morning spent in bed, drifting off into pleasant dreams.”

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