All Quotes by Adam Silvera
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for”
“But hey, if there’s one bright side to your dying, it’s that you aren’t around to tell me things I don’t like hearing. I’m sorry. That was a dickhead thing to say. I need a condom for my mouth.”
“The poetry you could write about Rufus helping me out of my grave isn't lost on me.”
“No one goes on, but what we leave behind keeps us alive for someone else.”
“No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
“You're dead, and I'm the worst kind of alive.”
“I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who think words will make me feel better.”
“I don’t ever see any character as 100 percent good or 100 percent evil…”
“Some people like ‘happily ever after,’ but I don’t think that’s me. I’m always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives … or doesn’t. When I really want to be comforted myself what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult. There are happy stories out there but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens…”
“I succeeded in making you care. If you feel nothing, I failed you as a storyteller. I love happy endings, but some readers need the darker stories, too. The stories that don’t make them feel disturbed by their own reality because it doesn’t reflect what they’re used to seeing in fiction. There’s some comfort in harsher stories, and witnessing how one character rebuilds after tragedy can provide hope for the reader.”
“I've wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows”
“It's better to be alive wishing I was dead, then dying wishing I could live forever.”
“No matter how we choose to live. We both die at the end”
“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.”
“Then there’s the kind of zombie I’ve become now: the one who has lost everything—his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.”
“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.”