“ Since You've Been Gone” by Morgan Matson - Quodid

How was I supposed to keep living in this town when everything I saw reminded me of someone I'd lost?

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

I don't think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it's the little things that are harder anyway.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

difficulty bravery

Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

relationships safety dating

I was still a little amazed that this was happening. That this, the thing that had seemed so impossible, so terrifying, so utterly beyond me, was happening. I was having fun. And I was the one who made it happen.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

This felt like the way you get nervous right before something exciting happens—the moment when you're balanced on the top of the roller coaster, the hush before the surprise party, the second after the diving board but before the water, when you can close your eyes and imagine, for just a second, that you're flying. The feeling that good things were coming, almost here, any moment now.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to.

—Morgan Matson in Since You've Been Gone

About Morgan Matson

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Morgan Catherine Matson (born September 19), also known under her pseudonym Katie Finn, is a New York Times bestselling American novelist.

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