Top 120 Morgan Matson Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I watched his taillights until they got more and more distant and then faded from view entirely. I realized, in that moment, that I hadn’t needed to destroy Bryan’s sunglasses in the Paradise parking lot. Because it was clear to me now that I’d already broken something.”

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102. “I know things might not work, and I know it’s scary, but the things that are worth it are.” -Emily.”

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103. “And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.”

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104. “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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105. “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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106. “You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.”

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107. “I looked up at him, and a thought passed through my brain before I could stop or analyze it. It’s you – of course it is. There you are.”

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108. “Theoretical crushes could remain perfect and flawless, because you never actually had to find out what that person was really like or deal with the weird way they chewed or anything.”

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109. “I turned and saw that Frank had joined me in the line. He took a step closer to me and said in a low voice, Mind if I jump the line? He glanced behind him at the older couple who were pursing their lips in disapproval, and said, too loudly, Thank you for saving my place in line, Emily!”

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110. “She didn’t know what it was like to look and wish and want, always two steps behind the person, always on the edges of their life. What it was like to stand next to someone and know you weren’t registering with them, not in any meaningful way. That you thought about someone a thousand times more than they’d ever thought about you. To know that you were just a face in the crowd scenes while they were center stage.”

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111. “I looked up at the stars, needing to see something fixed and permanent while everything else in my life seemed to be breaking apart.”

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112. “I stretched up to him, and we stayed liken that for just a second, not kissing, not yet, just hovering in the moment before, only a breath apart.”

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113. “Things felt strange and tentative between us, in a way they never had.”

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114. “Saying goodbye is basically an invitation not to see a person again. It’s making it okay for that to be the last conversation you have. So if you don’t say it – if you leave the conversation open – it means you’ll have to see them again.”

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115. “I had a theory – even though I’d never told anyone, not even Kat – that love was about paying attention. It’s the one thing you can’t buy or fake or make up for at the last minute. So the things that meant the most to me were the little details that told you someone had been paying attention, memorizing your random preferences, letting you know they cared.”

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116. “This was Classic Palmer – she was hardwired for optimism and seemed absolutely incapable of not seeing the bright side. All the Aldens were like that. They didn’t dwell; they looked for solutions, made some snacks, and kept moving forward.”

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117. “But I looked over at him, with his substitute math teacher glasses and hopeful expression, and my smile faded. He hadn’t learned yet that things didn’t work out just because you wanted then to.”

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118. “I felt myself swallow hard, thinking of the full glimpse I’d just gotten, and also wondering if there was a way I could suggest that he maybe stop wearing a shirt on our runs.”

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119. “It was a kiss that was both familiar and brand-new, making me remember a kiss from five years ago, and making me feel like I’d never been kissed before in my life.”

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120. “Why do people see a benefit in disowning the things we loved when we were little? Why are we always casting everything aside?”

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121. “We’d also left lots of time unscheduled – the long stretches of hours we’d spend at the beach or walking around or just hanging out with no plan beyond maybe getting fountain Diet Cokes. It was Sloane – you usually didn’t need more than that to have the best Wednesday of your life.”

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122. “You know how you’re always saying that real life isn’t like those movies, and it doesn’t actually happen that way?” I nodded, and she gave me a trembly smile. “Go prove yourself wrong.”

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123. “Emily, I might be hallucinating,” she said calmly, as she turned to me. “Because I could almost swear that was Frank Porter.”

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124. “You’re not going to get away with this,” she said darkly, shaking her head at me. “I will not stand for it.” I just stared at her, wondering if all the people trying to build up self-esteem in middle schoolers had actually gone too far.”

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125. “It’s always easier to believe someone is perfect and never wrong. Easier – but never true.”

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126. “And now that I knew that the time we had together was limited, I was holding on to it, trying to stretch it out, all the while wishing I’d appreciated what I’d had earlier.”

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127. “If you don’t move on from the past, you’re going to miss out on some really amazing stuff in the future.”

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128. “Danny was his own flawed person, as much as I might have wanted to keep him in one box and keep everything simple and neat. He was just more complicated than that. Life was more complicated than that.”

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129. “In the silence that followed, I was aware of just how much I wished things were different. I wanted to be able to talk to her, and tell her how afraid I was of what was going to happen, and have her tell me everything was going to be all right. But the way we’d always behaved stopped me, and all I could see were the barriers and walls I’d put up between me and my mother- casually, unthinkingly, not realizing that at some point I might want to take them down. pg 258-259.”

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130. “Now sounds perfect.”

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131. “How was it that you only fully realised what you had when it was gone? And I knew there would be new friends, new experiences, maybe even amazing adventures ahead of me. But I felt like I needed, for just a moment, to appreciate what I was – what we all were – leaving behind.”

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132. “Why had I never thought about how intimate it was, just sleeping in the same room with someone? Because it really was – it was how I knew Siobhan talked in her sleep, and occasionally sang, and that Linnie stole every blanket she saw and then denied it with a straight face in the morning. When you were asleep, you were who you were, not who you were pretending to be, and now I was going to be doing that with Bill, with someone I’d just met that morning.”

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133. “I have a crippling fear of being without a dog.”

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134. “Honestly, if our teachers really wanted dates to stick with us, they should just make epic action-romance movies about all major world events.”

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