"More Happy Than Not" Quotes
After a failed suicide attempt, Aaron Soto undergoes a memory-alteration procedure to forget his romantic feelings for another boy.
young adult | 293 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
Happiness shouldn't be this hard, but it is.
I've become this happiness scavenger who picks away at the ugliness of the world, because if there's happiness tucked away in my tragedies, I'll find it no matter what.
The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it.
Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible.
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
There's more hate in the world than there is love.
With all this hate in the world, you wonder how anyone could survive.
It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up and live, I want to have just a little hope-even if it's in the form of a smile-to make it through the day.
I can't tell if I'm dealing with the loss of someone important, or just someone important to me.
The truth is I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know how to be. I don't know if I have it in me to keep on going.
