Top 120 Morgan Matson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I knew that this couldn’t last- that there were people waiting and he had things to do and this couldn’t go on forever. But in that moment it was like everything fades away and there was only me and Clark and the possibility of us- whatever we might become- stretching forward in a hundred different directions, all of them unexpected, each one better than the last, the ending not yet written.”

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52. “For the first few weeks after we’d gotten back together, I’d been worried that things might fall apart again, not sure that I was up to being in a real relationship, one with actual stakes and feelings and something to lose.”

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53. “If that logic made any sense – which it doesn’t, by the way – you, with your Volvo, would have been way more into Swedish House Maffia.”

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54. “Pay close attention when people tell you stories. At their core, every story you’ve ever heard comes down to two things. Someone goes on a long journey or a stranger comes to town.”

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55. “Do you not like the Beatles?” Frank asked, sounding shocked, as we finished our cool-down and started walking back toward my house. “Do you also not like sunshine and laughter and puppies?”

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56. “What do you think a Chick-fil-A is?” Roger asked, as we pulled off the interstate and into the parking lot.”

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57. “It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.”

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58. “And I know it’s scary, but the things that are worth it are. It feels right.”

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59. “The idea that you could rethink the thing you’d always thought you wanted and change your plan – it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful” -Andie.”

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60. “Oh my god,” she said, once I’d finished. She had reacted just as I’d hoped she would throughout. She’d been responding at the right moments, making me realize how much I’d missed telling her things – her enthusiasm, her complete lack of judgment, the way that, even when you were wrong, she was on your side.”

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61. “It was like she knew a secret, a good one, and if you got close enough, maybe she’ll tell you, too.”

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62. “I looked at my brothers, and Linnie, and Rodney, and felt something within me that had been clenched tight start to loosen a little. So maybe I wasn’t just the youngest, the one who didn’t get told things. I was also the one who came to help, who tried to make things work, who they called when they were in trouble.”

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63. “I had never been to a drive-in before, but I’d loved it after the first movie – the big screen set up at one end of a field, the cars parked in slightly crooked rows, the speakers you could hang over the window of your car, the way they always played double features.”

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64. “It was like she was the one person who knew there was a unicorn waiting to be set free from the paper clip.”

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65. “Mostly, I just wanted to feel his arms around me, solid and true, while I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse than having it broken all at once.”

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66. “Did you ever have a night that just... seemed to change everything?” he asked, sounding happy but a bit bewildered. “And everything is different afterward?” I didn’t and Warren must have seen this on my expression, because he shook his head as he opened the door. “Never mind,” he said. “Forget it. ‘Night, Taylor.”

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67. “We were silent for a few minutes, and I realized it was okay. Maybe we didn’t have to share every single feeling we were having, and analyze it.” -Emily.”

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68. “The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they’re just determined to chase impossible things. And most of them are so busy looking at the horizon that they can’t even see what’s right in front of them.”

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69. “Or maybe I hadn’t. Maybe I’d just been waiting for this moment, right now.”

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70. “But as long as you know your constellations, you’re never lost.”

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71. “Have you ever been down to Colorado? I spend a lot of time there in my mind. – Merle Haggard.”

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72. “You said you didn’t want to waste your time on people who aren’t going to matter,” I said, and he nodded. “But how do you know they’re not going to matter? Unless you give it a shot?”

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73. “I’d always loved the chance to become someone else for a few hours. Someone for whom the words had been written, every gesture and emotion plotted, and the ending figured out. Almost like life. Just without the surprises.”

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74. “Oh, that is where you are mistaken. Believing that such a thing – just a kiss – has ever, for even a second, existed in this world.”

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75. “What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?”

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76. “Because believing you’re not alone is the cruelest trick of all.”

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77. “Every day. Even now I’m always thinking about what I want to tell her. stuff she’d find funny. It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.”

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78. “How was I supposed to keep living in this town when everything I saw reminded me of someone I’d lost?”

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79. “It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.”

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80. “I looked like someone who’d had a night, and had a story to tell about it.”

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81. “I’m so sorry-I broke you moose?”

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82. “I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun.”

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83. “Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them... But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.”

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84. “This idea that the person who kisses you first gets, with that kiss, a little piece of your soul. And they have a hold over you. Most people don’t ever use it against you. But some people do.”

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85. “He kissed me back. It lasted just a moment, but he kissed me back, right away, without hesitation, as though we’d always been doing it.”

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86. “In a well-ordered universe, there would be no mysteries. You’d just know things. There wouldn’t be these big, hanging questions.”

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87. “Wait, I’m sorry, but how do you not read books? Like-what do you do on planes?”

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88. “It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.”

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89. “Sometimes my grandfather was awake, and would sit with me while I looked up at the stars, needing to see something fixed and permanent while everything else in my life was falling apart.”

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90. “Your childhood friends are the ones you should hang on to. They know you in a way that nobody else does.”

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91. “Soon this would just be who I was. Soon old me would be dead too. I tipped my head against the cold glass of the window. When I felt myself begin to cry, I didn’t fight against it. And when I caught my refection in the dark window, I wasn’t able to tell what was tears and what was rain.”

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92. “Even though it was past eight, there was still some light left – it was one of those long summer twilights that seem to go on forever, the light somehow tinged with blue. I.”

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93. “In a well-ordered universe,” I said to Frank, “there would be no mysteries.”

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94. “But it always felt like nothing had really happened until I’d talked to Sloane about it.”

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95. “That was our place. That was where we used to make out!”

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96. “Then she smiled at me and said what she always did before we went out. “Let’s go have the best night ever.”

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97. “I knew I had no right to feel mad about this, but even so, I had to fight back the tears that were threatening to escape-for what Frank and I had had, and for what we would never have, and for what I’d broken.”

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98. “I didn’t have enough voice left to scream. And it wasn’t like anything was going to change. No matter how much I cried, even if I let myself yell, things were never going to get better.”

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99. “I realized there was a piece of me that had been waiting for this to happen ever since we’d become friends – the moment when Sloane would realize I wasn’t cool enough, or daring enough, to be her best friend.”

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100. “I know,′ I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we’d ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.”

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