Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"أجل، أعلم، قلتُ، مستحضراً الرحلة التي أرادت أمي أن أقوم بها، والرحلة التي انتهى بنا المطاف إليها، وكم كانت رحلتنا أفضل بكثير."
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"I 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."
"أجل، أعلم، قلتُ، مستحضراً الرحلة التي أرادت أمي أن أقوم بها، والرحلة التي انتهى بنا المطاف إليها، وكم كانت رحلتنا أفضل بكثير."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"And 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."
"وأحيانًا،" أردفت بنبرة شبه هامسة، كأنما تسرّ إليّ بخبيئة، "إن لم يكن شعورك الداخلي على ما يرام، فما عليكِ سوى أن تبدي متألقة من الخارج، وبعد فترة لن تعودي تميزين بين الأمرين."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"It was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire."
"كان أشبه بما تخيلتُه من تجرّع لهيب غابة."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"... 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..."
"...بوسعك أن تفعل شيئًا استثنائيًا، شيئًا لا يقدر عليه الكثيرون. وإن أتيحت لك الفرصة لتصقل مواهبك، فيبدو التخلي عنها جريمة. أعني، إنه محض ضعف أن تستسلم لمجرد أن الأمر بات صعبًا..."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"You don't have to go away to know where your home is."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- Leonard"
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"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, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"All I could determine was that it must have been a nice thing to see if it was a house you were thinking about moving into. But not so nice if it was the house you were moving out from. I could practically hear Mr Collins, who had taught my fifth-grade English class and was still the most intimidating teacher I'd ever had, yelling at me. "Amy Curry," I could still hear him intoning, "never end a sentence with a preposition!" Irked that after six hears he was still mentally correcting me, I told the Mr. Collins in my head to off fuck."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. "You look hot."What? Me" I stammered, completely flummoxed."Yeah," he said, still looking at me."Oh. Um, thank you. I mean, not that you don’t, but I’m not sure that you should—I mean …"Oh, no," Roger said quickly, and I could see that he was blushing again. "No. I mean—I meant what you’re wearing. Are you going to be too warm?"
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"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, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"You + Mesaw this... AMERICAThank you for finding America with me"
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"Roger, he has a chain saw," I hissed. "I am not going to die in Kentucky!"
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, 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, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
"I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go."
Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
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