01c. 1981 ADAnyone else would have probably stayed put---or at least looked deeply uncomfortable, but Frank seemed like he was taking this in stride, like helping to reunite friends was just a normal thing he did.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
02c. 1981 ADTerrible 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1981 ADIt’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- LeonardMorgan Matson / quote ↗
04c. 1981 ADIt was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
05c. 1981 ADI saw the statue completely different now. I'd decided that he wasn't pointing to anything or anyone. Now all I could see was that he was reaching out his hand to someone. For me that explained the expression on his face that I'd never quite been able to understand before. He was hopeful and nervous and scared and a little bit proud of himself for doing it - extending his hand to someone, not knowing if they'd take it. This was, I had realized, one of the scariest things of all, requiring much more courage than sailing across an ocean and landing on an unknown shore At least that's what I saw. Clark and Tom's new theory was that he was a time traveler who'd somehow been transported to the past and was just trying to hail a cab.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
06c. 1981 ADI was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
07c. 1981 ADNothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
08c. 1981 ADAnd I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
11c. 1981 ADYou get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
12c. 1981 ADI looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
13c. 1981 AD...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...Morgan Matson / quote ↗
14c. 1981 ADIt was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
15c. 1981 ADYou're the brightest thing in the room," he said. He lifted his hand from my waist, and slowly, carefully brushed a stray lock of hair from my cheek. "You shine.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
16c. 1981 ADAnd sometimes," she added, in a slightly hushed tone, like she was letting me in on a secret, "if you don't feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won't be able to tell the difference.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
17c. 1981 ADI'll answer that.' He took a deep breath, and I could see his eyes searching mine, like he was looking for an answer. 'I had thought that was the ending,' he finally said. 'But I might have been wrong.''I was just thinking,' I said, sure that the rest of the crowd could probably hear how hard my heart was beating, since it seemed deafening to me, pounding in my ears, 'that maybe Marjorie realized she was in love with Karl. And told him that. And said she was sorry for being scared.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
18c. 1981 ADI waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
19c. 1981 ADAnd when I started to cry as I pulled into my driveway,it was coming down hard enough that I could pretend that it was only the rain hitting my face, and not the fact that I'd just lost another friend.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
20c. 1981 ADI know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.Morgan Matson / quote ↗
21c. 1981 ADWe were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding againMorgan Matson / quote ↗
