The Day We Met Quotes

“Being a mother is about protecting your children from every conceivable thing that might cause them hurt, but it's also about trusting them to live the best way for them, the best way they can; and trusting that even when you are not there to hold their hand, they can succeed.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Love is a funny thing," he says, breaking the silence.
"Sometimes, I'd like to be better with words, so that I could talk about it more. It seems so wrong to me that there is this condition that affects all of us, more than anything else in our lives ever will, and only the poets and song writers get to talk about it with any sort of authority.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Push yourself out of your comfort zone and see what you are really capable of.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“looking at my reflection, in the window opposite, hollow and translucent, I see a woman disappearing. It would help if I looked like that in real life – if the more the disease advanced, the more ‘see-through’ I became until, eventually, I would be just a wisp of a ghost. How much more convenient it would be, how much easier for everyone, including me, if my body just melted away along with my mind. Then we’d all know where we were, literally and metaphysically.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“I think it’s love that lasts. It’s love that remembers us. It’s love that is left, when we are gone. I think those feelings are more real than our bodies and all the things that can go wrong with them.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“That's the way I want you to live your life, Caitlin. The way you want to, not the way that circumstances dictate.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the worrior queen”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“It seems to me that you can't decide to like a person based on their personal circumstances. It seems to me that sometimes you can like a person because of who they are, despite their personal circumstances.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Love is a funny thing," he says, breaking the silence.
"Sometimes, I'd like to be better with words, so that I could talk about it more. It seems so wrong to me that there is this condition that affects all of us, more than anything else in our lives ever will, and only the poets and song writers get to talk about it with any sort of authority.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the warrior queen”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Greg is looking at me; he thinks I don’t know it. I’ve been chopping onions at the kitchen counter for almost five minutes, and I can see his reflection – inside out, convex and stretched – in the chrome kettle we got as a wedding present. He’s sitting at the kitchen table, checking me out.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Memory Book