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When You Were Here Quotes
When You Were Here
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Daisy Whitney3,688 ratings, 3.82 average rating, 429 reviews
When You Were Here Quotes
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“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.”
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― When You Were Here
“ Trains are all the ways you miss each other—wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time. ”
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― When You Were Here
“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.”
― When You Were Here
― When You Were Here
“But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.”
― When You Were Here
― When You Were Here
“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.”
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― When You Were Here
“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.”
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― When You Were Here
“I would be a freak with you anytime, anywhere.”
― When You Were Here
― When You Were Here
“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.”
― When You Were Here
― When You Were Here
“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.”
― When You Were Here
― When You Were Here
“Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.”
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― When You Were Here
“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.”
― When You Were Here
― When You Were Here
“No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?”
― When You Were Here
― When You Were Here
“I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somewhere else entirely, so far off the map I don't know where to turn next.”
― When You Were Here
― When You Were Here
“My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.”
― When You Were Here
― When You Were Here
“Nothing is ever enough.”
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― When You Were Here
“When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.”
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― When You Were Here
“Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.”
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― When You Were Here
“Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.”
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― When You Were Here
“Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.”
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― When You Were Here
“Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.”
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― When You Were Here
“This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.”
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― When You Were Here
“Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.”
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― When You Were Here
“Yeah, I'm just here for - " I stop for a second, because I'm not sure how to finish the line out loud. To see if I can ever be happy, or even remotely human, again. Would you happen to have the magic cure?”
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― When You Were Here
