Morgan Matson

“It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.”

“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?”

“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”

“It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- Leonard”

“I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.”

“And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.”

“You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.”

“I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”

“And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.”

“I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.”

“I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for my real night to begin—my time with my family just something to get through as quickly as possible. And now that I knew that the time we had together was limited, I was holding on to it, trying to stretch it out, all the while wishing I’d appreciated what I’d had earlier.”

“In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors.”

“Anyone 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.”

“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.”

“In a well-ordered universe...”