Who We Were Before Quotes

“I think how marriage doesn’t have the power to bind – only the actions of two people can do that. ‘Forever’ and happy endings aren’t a given, and life can be shit, just like the woman on the train said. But perhaps you do need to have faith, too. Faith in yourself, and faith in your relationship.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“I spend a lot of time inside my head. I like it there, blanketed from the world.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“But the thing is, no relationship is always going to be one hundred per cent happy all of the time. Things will change and develop. But you have to believe in the other person, and that your love is strong enough to get you through all of that. It’s kind of like taking a leap of faith.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“That bloody phone! He and his mobile have more of a relationship than we do, not that it would take much. ‘I”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“And if you don’t expect anything – don’t want anything in particular – then you can’t be let down.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“screw my eyes shut and make a silent vow that from now on, I’ll do everything in my power to keep my child safe.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“This child is the most important thing in my world – in our world – and I’m going to make his life the happiest, the most fulfilling it can be. That’s my promise to him, and I’ll have to fall down dead before I break it.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“And if you don’t expect anything – don’t want anything in particular – then you can’t be let down.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“I’d take things day to day, because that’s all you can do. You can’t control the other person, you can’t control emotions, and you can’t control the future.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“marathon without stopping. A group of blokes about university age swarm past”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“it seems like the blink of an eye. His little face – the face that was fading slightly, like a photo greying over time – bursts into technicolour. I close my eyes, trying to imprint the sharpness of the image on my brain before I lose it again. For just a second, it feels like he’s right there in”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“to find something, anything, that would give me a”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“happy ending. Rest in peace. I jerk back. The beginning of our own happy ending? I don’t remember reading that before, but then, I could barely see straight at the funeral, let alone focus on the tombstone, and Edward took care of all those details. It’s an echo of our”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“hardly eaten since . . . I can’t even remember when.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“box and I pull it out, then head back out to the lounge. Zoe’s exactly as I left her, frozen in place. When she sees what’s in my hand, her face breaks into a huge smile. God, I’ve missed the”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“there a chance . . . a chance he still loves me? At the very”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“happened, not me.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“is small and dark,”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“It’s funny. Before Milo came along, I worried how I’d keep my business ticking over while tending a newborn. Turns out it wasn’t that difficult – or maybe I just stopped caring so much about work; web design was never my creative calling. And when you stare into the slumbering face of a tiny creature so new to the world, it’s amazing how everything else fades. Either way, my life was the perfect balance. I could stay home with my baby, with just enough work to keep my tired brain ticking and feel like something other than a human milk machine. Everyone said how lucky I was.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“God! This is why I’m barely home. I can’t stand the emptiness.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“husband, as we faced each other over my son’s unmoving body. So much easier to think of Milo as”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“even like the way he blushed. Confidence without arrogance, and a willingness to push his boundaries: so far, so good.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“Okay, okay, I’ll go.’ ‘Good.”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before

“As I watch the dancers bend and swoop, I can’t help wondering what would happen if someone lobbed a baby their way. Who would catch it: the man or the woman? Would it throw them off balance, or would the baby melt into them seamlessly? How would they embrace again – the same, all-encompassing way – if one of them always had to hold the child? They would never move with such abandon again, not as a couple. The”
― Leah Mercer, Who We Were Before