Worst-Case Collin Quotes

“I sift and sort piles of words.
I can't seem to gather the right ones.
Even if I did, I wonder
if he would listen.
I'm starting to wonder if he would care.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“Liam thinks cremation
should be the name of a new ice cream parlor.
All afternoon he won't shut up about
banana splits with extra hot fudge,
triple-scoop waffle-cone supremes,
brownie batter blasts.
Until I explain to him that cremation actually means to burn a dead body.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“Georgia turns to wave one last time.
My lips form the word Kalamazoo.
I see Georgia through the passenger window.
Kalamazoo, too! she mouths.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“Turns out
I'm still alive.
Not dead
Just suffering from severe shock.
And maybe
Which feels
LOVE.
just as terrifying and horrifying and exciting
as every worst-case scenario I ever studied.
Except this
I am totally, utterly unprepared for.
And maybe that’s what makes it so great.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“I'm proud of you.
For being brave.
For seeing things
I couldn't see, didn't want to see.
Things that are still hard for me and probably always will be.
Things that will take time.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“And my face looks weird.
I know this because Georgia says, Collin, your face looks weird.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“For literally the first time ever
I actually hope
That Liam’s right”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“there is space inside the human heart for infinite love and infinite sadness and all the messiness in between.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“I'm not sure if this counts as an official truce, and it definitely doesn't feel like friendship, but at the very least it's something better than before, and right now that's enough.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“Gravity might always win, but I've got a choice:
fall or dive.
And I choose to dive.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“I persuade Dad to take me to Miguel's.
At dinner his favorite topic of conversation is the space-time continuum.
This is interesting because
space
and
time
are the only two things
I actually wish he would give me.
I just don't know how to tell him that.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“Georgia, Liam, me.
Together
we are three.
A prime number, indivisible,
because nothing can break us apart.
Except maybe swim camp.
Or summer school.
And possibly the Hoard.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“I display the Fireball between my teeth, pulling my lips into a tingly, victorious smile.
Liam looks disappointed.
Georgia looks pleased.
Too pleased
Did she perform some act of skullduggery for me?
The thought sends a funny warmth through my chest and into my belly.
Or maybe
that's just the cinnamon.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“Back then, our house felt
full.
Bursting, even.
But never
crowded, cluttered, claustrophobic.
Because
Love
doesn't take up too much room.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin

“Discovery is a messy process, Mom would say.
Your father works best in a state of creative chaos.”
― Rebecca Caprara, Worst-Case Collin