Before I Go Quotes

“Science can’t explain why two specific people are magnetically drawn to each other instead of repelled. Only love can.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“I suppose all couples feel this way at some point—that their bond is the most special, the strongest, the Greatest Love of All. Not all the time, just in those few and far between moments where you look at the person you’re with and think: Yes. It’s you.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“why do people always say they could get hit by a bus? Like life is just one big game of Frogger and people are getting struck left and right by dangerous city transport.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“He tells me the AWARE technique is an acronym for Accept the anxiety, Watch the anxiety, Act normal, Repeat, and Expect the best.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“So I can’t explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“I was going to be getting the food.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“As a twenty-one-year-old college student, Daisy Richmond’s answer to the question “If you knew you were going to die in one month, what would you do?” was full of adventure and travel to exotic lands. As a twenty-seven-year-old woman who is faced with a recurrence of breast cancer, her answer is very different. Before I Go is the poignant story of Daisy’s journey to navigate the unexpected twists and turns of life, and the painful process of letting go of everything but love.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“I want my husband to not be possibly falling in love with another woman.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“pushes the gearshift into park. “Speak of the”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“called her “supermodel mark”—just in case”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“again—I’ve realized that’s what grieving is, a constant cycle of feeling better and feeling worse, and I’m hopeful that one day I’ll feel better more often than I feel worse—so”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“Meh. She’s not overly unattractive, but I don’t trust cat people. Maybe it’s the inside knowledge of growing up with one, but I think they’re often like the animals they love—unpredictable and emotionally unstable. You never know when they’ll be aloof and distant or senselessly desperate for your affection.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“Alex Trebek’s voice fills the room, and if I wasn’t looking at his cobwebby hair on the screen, I would swear I was in a time warp. I watched Jeopardy religiously in middle school while waiting for Mom to get home from work.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“After dinner, we clear the dishes and go into the den, where I sit on the same brown paisley couch that we’ve had forever. In fact, the entire house looks exactly the same as it did in my childhood—although a little more cluttered, since I’m not around anymore to make sure everything is returned to its precise location at the end of the day. I used to think Mom didn’t buy new furniture or redecorate because she didn’t have the time or money, but now I wonder if it has to do with Dad. Like she subconsciously keeps the house the same way it was the last time he was in it. Some psychological time warp that makes her feel closer to him.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

“E que, quando ela riu, o seu riso abalou a minha convicção de que eu nascera para ser veterinário e me fez pensar que tinha nascido com o único propósito de encontrar maneiras de fazê-la rir novamente.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go