The One That Got Away Quotes

“Death is not the way they show it in the movies, with the dying person holding on just long enough for one last embrace, some final words of love or absolution.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“One man's desperate is another man's persistent.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“I think sometimes you get so used to being with someone that it’s just a habit, not something that really makes you happy.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“...I've never met anybody Irish who came in a shade darker than moonglow.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“This is one of the shittiest parts of grief, right here. The absolute futility of it. The way that no matter how much you feel, there’s nowhere for it to go. It’s not like a noise you can dial down or turn off—it just squeezes you. And when it’s squeezing, all you can do is cry from the pain. And then wipe your stupid face and keep walking. Nothing changes. Nothing suddenly heals. You never actually get to feel better—you just get to stop crying. I don’t know how one force of emotion can be at once so sharp, so ragged with splintered edges that pierce and rip, and yet also so blunt and blank and immutable.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“Emotional infidelity.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“This is why the home you build yourself, in many ways, is the most rewarding one of all. You can fill it, and populate it, with whatever and whoever you wish. It can be whatever you want it to be, whether it’s the place you share with your partner, or your partner plus the colorful chaos of children (or the furry and malodorous chaos of pets), or just the solitary peace of your sofa, a good book and a big glass of wine. This home is the one you fill with your own family, whoever you choose them to be—but the peace is in the choosing.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away

“Even these last few, terrible days, he’s been my first thought in the morning, my last thought at night. Eamon—not Noah.”
― Bethany Chase, The One That Got Away