Here in the Real World Quotes

“It was an insane, impossible-to-keep promise, of course.

But he didn't care. Because when he'd made it, his heart--which, he suddenly understood, had been useless up until now, just killing time pumping his blood around--his heart had lifted right out of his chest, as if it had been reborn as a bird, and was now soaring somwhere near the top of the watchtower.

And the view from there was terrific.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Here in the Real World

“Because you’re right. Bad stuff happens. But the real world is also all the things we do about the bad stuff. We’re the real world, too.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Here in the Real World

“Everything was something else before and will be something else after.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Here in the Real World

“Now, everywhere he looked he saw the ridiculousness of his dreams reflected back at him.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Here in the Real World

“Things generally grow into what's needed of them.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Here in the Real World

“So stop trying to keep bad stuff from me and start teaching me how to fix it.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Here in the Real World