Someone to Watch Over Me Quotes

“I hope not, because acute anxiety is exhausting.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“If I’ve learned anything on this journey, it’s that everything is temporary. Even the best of things. It’s all fleeting. All we can do is enjoy every second of the life we’re given, the love that comes our way and the joy we find along the road to wherever it is we’re going. Nothing is forever, except love. That outlives us all.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“We have a saying in widow circles, when people tell us how they admire our strength, that you never know how strong you are until you have no choice but to be strong.” “I suppose”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“I’m not saying it’s easy, because it isn’t. Jim’s illness and death was the hardest thing I’ve ever been through, but I have gotten through it. I’ll always love him, and he’ll always be part of me, but his death didn’t ruin my life as much as I thought it had for a while there.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“Trust me… It’s physically impossible to stay forever in the throes of early devastation. It’s just not sustainable for a lifetime. Joy creeps in. It finds you even when you think it never will. It can be something simple, like a flower or a sunset or an exquisite butterfly hovering outside the window. Life is beautiful in so many ways. After the fog clears and you start to notice those things again, it becomes clear that you’ll survive the seemingly unsurvivable, and you may even, one day, down the road, be happy again.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“I feel good about it. He is, in fact, terrific and has been just what I’ve needed over this last year as I put myself back together and started to stick my head back out into the world a bit.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“No, he hasn’t experienced what I have, but he holds the space for me to be exactly who and what I am—a widow who still deeply loves the man she lost to a cruel, relentless disease.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever have normal reactions to anything again.” “Do you define normal as how you would’ve reacted before Jim’s illness and death?” “I guess so.” “Then no, you won’t, because you can never go back to who you were before that happened. You’re a new version of yourself in this aftermath, so your reactions are normal for who you are now.” “That’s an interesting perspective.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“Widowed Lexi had learned to be guarded and cautious about allowing people to become too important, especially people with a potentially faulty heart. I simply couldn’t bear to lose another person I love. And yes, I love Tom.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“put my head back against the seat, as exhausted as I’ve been since Jim died. I hate feeling like this. It brings back so many memories I thought I’d left in the past. “Is it weird to be having a grief reaction to this when no one died?” “Not weird at all. Grief colors everything that happens after a big loss. Every single fucking thing, even the good stuff.” “That doesn’t feel fair.” “None of this is fair. Why is it that we had to lose our husbands while other people get to keep theirs for seventy years? Why did we have to rebuild lives we’d worked so hard to have in the first place? Why did we have to lose the one person we thought we couldn’t live without? Why did any of this have to happen?”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“What is it we always say about how people can’t possibly know what we’ve been through unless they’ve lost their person?” “Still… In a case like this one, say nothing rather than word-vomiting things a widow doesn’t need to hear.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“It’s all over your face, pal. You hate needing help. You hate feeling softer than you used to, before life kicked you in the teeth. I get that because I’ve lived it. One of the hardest parts of this journey is getting to know who we are now.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel

“Do I love Tom like that? I think I might. I’ve known for a while now that my feelings for him have blossomed in our months together, but I’ve kept him firmly in the friendship zone because I’m not ready for more. I might never be ready. It’s been almost three years since Jim died, and I’m still mired in the lingering anguish of his illness and death. Loving someone else the way I loved Jim will take courage I’m not sure I possess anymore. I’ve learned the hard way not to risk more than I can safely afford to lose. My phone vibrates with a reply from Iris. Oh God, Lex. I’m so sorry. What can I do besides pray for your Tom? I want to tell her he’s not my Tom. But isn’t he? He wants to be. I’ve known that for a while, too. Iris and our Wild Widows friends were the ones who gently informed me that a man doesn’t pack a lunch every day for a woman unless he has strong feelings for her. Of course they’re right, but I told them I’m not ready for all the things he could be to me. They reminded me I’m not on anyone else’s timetable but my own, which brought me comfort. The last thing I’d ever want to do is hurt him in the process of dealing with my own crap. I had the hugest crush on him in high school, but he never knew I was alive, or so I thought,”
― Marie Force, Someone to Watch Over Me: A Wild Widows Novel