The Other Side of Now Quotes

“The truth is, we live. We can't spend every moment treasuring the things we love. We still get mad at the dog for tracking mud through the house, even though one day we would give anything to have her muddy paws back on our white carpet. We still roll our eyes at our parents' needy voicemails, even though one day those recorded moments will be all we have left.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I know that no matter how much someone loves you and you love them, there's no guarantee that they will always be there.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I have this sense of certainty that I had finally touched the bottom of the emotion. I now know the depth of my pain and, finally, I can begin swimming toward the surface. I never need to go that far again.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I don’t try to protect the memory of tonight from tragedy by pretending it isn’t lovely”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“He walks into rooms and has full-on conversations without introducing or acknowledging that Aimee is even with him so then she’s left to trail behind him like overlooked punctuation.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I’m afraid that something will loosen in my psyche and I will simply cease to have power over myself.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I’m not here waiting for life. I’m in it. It’s happening now! Look out!”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“You’re not on the outside of your life looking in. Everyone isn’t off having some perfect moment and you’re left out of it. You’re alive right now. Whether your real life is back in California, or it’s here, or if it’s on Pluto, it doesn’t matter. You’re here right now. I wish you didn’t feel like things were such high stakes. You can be happy, you know.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“Sex right up until the orthopedic shoes, huh? Then no more.” “No more. I’ll be tired then.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“The answer to how is unsatisfying. The truth is … we live. We can’t spend every moment treasuring the things we love. We still get mad at the dog for tracking mud through the house even though one day, we would give anything to have her muddy paws back on our white carpet. We still roll our eyes at our parents’ needy voicemails even though one day, those recorded moments will be all we have left.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“When you're a celebrity, people rarely want to tell you "no". How do you think Michael Jackson went as far as he did with plastic surgery? How did Kim Kardashian get away with wearing that Marilyn Monroe dress? Who lets Johnny Depp out of the house looking like he does? Or honestly, who lets him out of the house period? He used to be so hot.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I don't try to protect the memory of tonight from tragedy by pretending it isn't lovely, and I don't cherish it so hard that I smother out its spark. I don't question the magic or panic that what I love is slipping through my fingers, or that every good thing will one day be cast pale against the darkness of future catastrophe. Instead, I have a good night. I get kissed in the snow. I eat chocolate in bed. I make plans for tomorrow.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“And honestly, even if I'm losing my mind, at least there's a dog here.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“Could be stress. Or something you ate. To quote Ebenezer Scrooge when he saw the ghost of Jacob Marley, you may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“What I need is to be around people I care about. To let people love me. To have small moments, knowing that they’re the biggest ones, and not ignore them because I’m too busy looking way off in the distance, either future or past, for some imagined thing.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“The answer to how is unsatisfying. The truth is … we live. We can’t spend every moment treasuring the things we love. We still get mad at the dog for tracking mud through the house even though one day”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“There’s a sense of familiarity but no memory alongside it. I wonder if this is what déjà vu is. What if it’s different realities bleeding through?”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“It smells different in Ireland. Like dewy green grass and fresh”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now