When You Were Here
Daisy Whitney
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.”
“ Trains are all the ways you miss each other—wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time. ”
“I risk a grin at the thought. Because there's a part of me that likes that idea. Get out of town and never look back.”
“But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.”
“But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.”
“Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.”
“I would be a freak with you anytime, anywhere.”
“To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time—and to be at peace with that.”
“She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even legible. "What's wrong with it?" I asked her. "It's not good enough yet. You have to try harder," she said, her voice gentle. "You have to try hard at everything you do. That's all I ask." I rolled my eyes and revised it, and over time her approach wore off on me and I became like her too - wanting to do my best, expecting my best.”
“I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.”
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