Always You and Me Quotes

“I learnt that you can’t outrun grief because it always knows where to find you”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Adam had always been a fatalist. ‘If something is meant to be yours”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Nobody wants to hear about him. They don’t ask you what he was like”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Peachy,’ Lily said, her face softening the way it had done for over forty years whenever she looked at her son. The first time Josh had witnessed the phenomenon had been in a room not dissimilar to the one they were currently occupying. A slippery, squirming infant, still slick with blood, as though he’d fought a battle to get there, had been placed into Lily’s outstretched arms and her face had transformed into an expression that Josh had thought only angels wore. He’d never seen anyone fall in love before, never witnessed the moment when one soul connected with another and formed a bond that could never be broken. Josh had always suspected it would be that way for Lily”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Theirs was a true love story; so strong, so powerful, they needed no one else but each other. And suddenly everything cleared in my head because this was what I wanted too. This was my dream, the one that had started with Adam, but still lived on. I didn’t need to find the perfect man to be an ideal husband; I’d already found and then lost that. I also didn’t need a man who made my pulse race and filled my head with thoughts and dreams that could never be, because I’d found and lost that too. What I needed to complete my life, my world and my future was already there. Waiting for me. And I knew in this moment that I was ready for the next incredible, life-changing stage of my life to begin.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Before knowing Adam, I’d thought owners who believed their dogs understood them were crazy. I’d have laughed if you’d told me that one day some of my most meaningful conversations would be with someone who could only bark their response. But then there were a lot of things old me would never have understood. Back then I hadn’t known that losing the person you were meant to grow old with would be so hard that some days you could barely drag yourself out of bed. If it hadn’t been for Fletcher, and the promise I’d made to Adam to take care of him, I could easily have spent weeks on end in our”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“learnt that you can’t outrun grief because it always knows where to find you, but you can keep yourself so busy that it can only squeeze into the gaps of your life, instead of burying you under an avalanche of sadness.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“The first year will be the worst,’ people had told me at the funeral. I think their words were meant to comfort me, to let me know that life would eventually get better, but at the time it felt like being kicked when you were already down. Those initial three hundred and sixty-five days had been an assault course of firsts. Some stabbed like knife wounds, others had been paper cuts of grief, unexpectedly sharp and painful. You’d expect the first Christmas, first birthday and first anniversary to hurt – and they did. But even worse are the ones that blindside you. The first time a stranger innocently asks, ‘Are you married?’ and you have no idea how to reply, because in your heart you still are, and always will be. Fletcher must have decided it was a day to push the boundaries, for he’d wriggled even higher up the bed to lay his head on the smooth undented pillow beside mine. ‘Nice try, dog, but you’re not sleeping on the bed.’ A smile flitted across my lips, as I realised that if Adam had been the one left alone, the dog would already have claimed my vacant half of the divan. It had taken almost six months before I’d summoned up the courage to wash Adam’s pillowcase. Each night I’d drag his pillow towards me, inhaling the lingering smell of him like an addict, until there was nothing left. It was a big milestone”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“It was hard to say what had been worse: waking for months in the middle of the night to find my hand searching for Adam across the cold sheets, or the day when my subconscious finally acknowledged he was never going to be found there.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“If something is meant to be yours, it will find its way to you,”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“some of my most meaningful conversations would be with someone who could only bark their response.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“I did as he asked, telling stories that all began with the words 'remember when...' they made us smile, they made us cry - but that was okay too, because we were doing it together, And 'together' was a luxury we wouldn't have for much longer.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“It would mean too much to me. That’s why we can’t do this.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me