"Along for the Ride" Quotes
A teenager navigates family drama and new love while working through her own issues during a summer at the beach.
young adult | 383 pages | Published in 2009
Quotes
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered - so many locks not enough keys.
It's all in the view. That’s what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.
Sometimes people jump to the wrong conclusions because it’s easier to think they know everything than to admit they know nothing.
Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it.
The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown.
It had always been the two of us, together. But now, as I stood there, I realized that was wrong. It had never been just the two of us. We’d always had my mother, and that had been enough. But now we didn’t.
Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don’t know a damn thing.
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
The truth is, it's all about how you frame it. I mean, you could be the most amazing, beautiful person in the world, but if you're unhappy, that's all people will see.
Sometimes that’s the only way to get through a week, a day, or even an hour. Just knowing it will all be on your own terms.





