Bethany Chase > Quotes

“Death is not the way they show it in the movies, with the dying person holding on just long enough for one last embrace, some final words of love or absolution.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“One man's desperate is another man's persistent.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“...I've never met anybody Irish who came in a shade darker than moonglow.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“But the thing about what-ifs is that you can drive yourself crazy, spinning your thoughts around and around until you’re dizzy; and for all that, you only ever end up in the same place you’re standing. All you can work with is what happened. What might have happened only haunts you.”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“Loss splits your world into people who get it and people who don't.”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“I think sometimes you get so used to being with someone that it’s just a habit, not something that really makes you happy.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it….No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company. —Hunter S. Thompson to Hume Logan, April 22, 1958”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“loss splits your world into people who get it and people who don’t. It’s human nature to try to make things not feel as awful as they are, which is why people say garbage like ‘Everything happens for a reason.’ But you’ve never done that. You never tried to pretend. Even that night—I’d done something you should have been angry at me for, but instead, you saw that I was hurting and you gave me comfort. You weren’t trying to make me talk about it, you weren’t telling me it was going to be okay; you were just…there with me. It was such a relief.”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“This is one of the shittiest parts of grief, right here. The absolute futility of it. The way that no matter how much you feel, there’s nowhere for it to go. It’s not like a noise you can dial down or turn off—it just squeezes you. And when it’s squeezing, all you can do is cry from the pain. And then wipe your stupid face and keep walking. Nothing changes. Nothing suddenly heals. You never actually get to feel better—you just get to stop crying. I don’t know how one force of emotion can be at once so sharp, so ragged with splintered edges that pierce and rip, and yet also so blunt and blank and immutable.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“There are these two little words I know, that we all know; we learn them so early that we can't remember when we did. They have a gravitational attraction to each other, I would say: the one word 'love,' and the other word 'story.' 'Cause you can have a story without love, sure; but when it comes to the kind of love you fall in, whether it's a slow glide or a blind plunge over the edge...you can't have a love without a story.”
― Bethany Chase, Results May Vary

“Emotional infidelity.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“Ah yes, the universal excuse for shitty comments that don’t land well. Just a joke.”
― Bethany Chase, One Night at the Lake

“Even these last few, terrible days, he’s been my first thought in the morning, my last thought at night. Eamon—not Noah.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“This is why the home you build yourself, in many ways, is the most rewarding one of all. You can fill it, and populate it, with whatever and whoever you wish. It can be whatever you want it to be, whether it’s the place you share with your partner, or your partner plus the colorful chaos of children (or the furry and malodorous chaos of pets), or just the solitary peace of your sofa, a good book and a big glass of wine. This home is the one you fill with your own family, whoever you choose them to be—but the peace is in the choosing.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away