Someone to Hold Quotes

“She looked at him, her eyes brimming with laughter again. Joel sat gazing at her, wondering how much attention she was drawing from the other occupants of the room. But, however much it was, she seemed unaware of it. He gazed back at her, more than a bit shaken, for she looked like a different woman when she laughed. She looked young and vivid and ...

What was the word his mind was searching for? Gorgeous? She was hardly that.

Stunning.

That was it. She looked stunning, and he was feeling a bit stunned. She made prettiness seem bland.

Her laughter quickly died, however. "You must have gathered enough information about me to paint a dozen pictures," she said, sounding suddenly cross. "I wish you would paint that infernal portrait and be done with it."

"So that you can be rid of me?" he said. "Alas, you would not be that even if I were ready to paint you tonight. We would still be sharing the schoolroom two afternoons each week. But I am not ready. The more I learn of you, the more I realize I do not know you at all. And, by your own admission, you do not know yourself either.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Hold

“... having a dream and being on the journey to fulfilling it sometimes brings more happiness than actually achieving it. We have a habit, do we not, of thinking happiness is a future state if only this and that condition can be met. And so much of life passes us by without our realizing how happy we can be in this present moment, or how nearly happy.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Hold

“when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one’s life, one had to keep on striding forward—or retreat and be forever defeated.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Hold

“bad. I sat him down, looked him in the eyes and made him confess to showering with no soap because he wanted to get it over with faster. We had to talk about how important it is to keep our bodies clean.” “That’s hilarious.” “It was funny, and it made me sad, because that’s something Mike should’ve been teaching him when they showered together. Once when Tyler was little, like maybe three, he and Mike were in the shower together. When they came out, Tyler told me in all seriousness, ‘Daddy has a huge penis.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“sorry for people who don’t know how lucky they are every minute of every day they get with the people they love.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“His dad and my wife and kids had to die for us to have the relationship we do now. These moments of joy amid the grief are simply astonishing.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“We’re all going to die, Gage. Some of us sooner than we should. We’ve had an up-close-and-personal view of what that’s like, and it’s only natural to want to avoid it in the future. But you can’t be so afraid of loss that you forget to live what’s left of your life, you know?”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“Life is crazy, strange, devastating and wonderful all at the same time.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“You were his wife. He chose you and brought you into his family knowing full well how they were. He should’ve always taken your side with them.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“I fucking hate racist people, especially the ones clutching their pearls and rosary beads while they actively hate other people for simply being born a different color or nationality or religion or sexual orientation than they are.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“I don’t know what it is about some guys who are just never satisfied no matter how good they have it.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“The Wild Widows have done more to get me through this ordeal than anyone else in my life, because they get what I’m going through like no one else ever could.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“She’s the heartbeat of our group, the sun around which we all orbit as we travel a road none of us would’ve chosen. That road is far less difficult together than it would’ve been on our own.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“It’s about two people who’ve been to hell and back and found each other along the way and who give each other something new and sweet and wonderful to focus on amid all the heartache.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“What’s the point of holding back? Being a widow is a daily reminder to live life to the fullest because you never know when it might end.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“I’m just saying I never would’ve taken such a big risk with such an important friend if I wasn’t sure about how I felt.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“We’re all stronger than we think we are until life tests us and shows us just how strong we can be when needed.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“I’ll mourn the loss of Patrick and the life we had planned forever, but it helps to be able to share that grief with someone who gets it.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“I try to surround myself with supportive, loving, thoughtful women who raise each other up rather than tear each other down.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“Please,” I tell them, “keep it real and give me something else to think about.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“It’s all me, all the time, and sometimes I hate Mike for dying and leaving me to do this on my own. Which is completely unfair because there was nothing Mike wanted more than to raise our kids and be there for every bump, scrape, growing pain and bedtime ordeal. There’s no way he would’ve ever left me to do this on my own. That’s something I’m as sure of as I am that tomorrow will dawn far too soon,”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“It’s funny how you miss things you used to disdain,”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“She was the most practical, keep-it-real person I’ve ever known, and she had no patience for bullshit or manufactured drama, as she liked to call it.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“Five-year-old Sophia is in tears as she clings to her mother. The poor girl has probably fretted all weekend about her mother’s safety, the way kids do when life teaches them that a beloved parent can be ripped from their lives without notice.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“It’s weird, isn’t it? That our closest friends from ‘before’ aren’t so close anymore, but this whole new group of people are like family?” “Everything is weird in the ‘after.’ Every single freaking thing.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“In a past life, I never would’ve forced the matter. I would’ve waited out Natasha while hoping whatever was going on didn’t devolve into some big emotional battle. I’ve had a lot of time to think about why I did that, and the only thing I can come up with is that I was so afraid of making her mad that I didn’t engage with her on things I probably should have.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“Nothing can prepare you for this journey, though. That’s something we’ve all learned the hard way.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“Even after tremendous loss, life can still be beautiful, he wrote. You never know what’s coming right around the next bend, and anything is still possible, even after the worst has happened. It’s important that we be open to these experiences when they present themselves to us as a reminder that life goes on, even when you think it won’t.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold

“Natasha used to say that life is for the living. That was one of her favorite sayings. I need to believe she meant it and would want me to be happy without her, even if that has seemed impossible at times.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Hold