"My Life Next Door" Quotes
A girl falls in love with the boy next door, but their relationship is tested by family secrets and social class differences.
young adult | 394 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
The Garretts were my bedtime story, long before I ever thought I’d be part of the reality.
One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that there is no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
I know now that I don’t want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
Sometimes it seems like you can’t even sneeze without someone offering you a tissue or scolding you for not sneezing the right way.
The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat—soft and persistent, underlying everything.
It’s one thing to make a bad decision when you’re just hurting yourself, but when your choices hurt other people, that’s when it becomes a problem.
There was a certainty to him, a strength that wasn’t loud or overbearing, but simply there.
It’s not that I didn’t love my mother. I did. But I realized that loving someone and getting along with them weren’t always the same thing.
I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
