Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.

— Morgan Matson

Roger, he has a chain saw," I hissed. "I am not going to die in Kentucky!

— Morgan Matson

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.

— Morgan Matson

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinion, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.-Roger Sullivan

— Morgan Matson

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.

— Morgan Matson

Tomorrow will be better.”“But what if it’s not?” I asked.“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.

— Morgan Matson

We’re always all alone,” he said, his voice cracked and worn. Tamsin shook her head. She knew that wasn’t true. She had years of proof to the contrary. “No,” she said. “Not always. Not even often.”“Oh,” the old man said, with a sigh that seemed to come from the depths of his being. “I forget you’re still young yet.” He coughed then, a dry, rattling sound. “Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends. . . Butin the end, it’s just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It’s better, really, to learn it early. This way, you can save yourself some disappointment.” He sighed then and slumped back against the wall once more. “Because believing you’re not alone is the cruelest trick of all.

— Morgan Matson

We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again

— Morgan Matson

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

— Morgan Matson

When you move as much as I have...you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn't work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship used to be like, why you liked that person. And I hated it. And I just didn't want to do it again. Not with you.

— Morgan Matson