The Color of a Silver Lining Quotes

“comforting to know that. It’s”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“decided I would never take contentment for granted again. I would make the most of it while it lasted.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“What was she like as a baby?” I thought back to those early days and how I was so utterly, madly in love with her. The love had knocked me over like a hurricane the first second I held her in my arms. I cried like a baby and sobbed all over her. I never knew such love could exist in the world, and that love had only grown deeper with time.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“How do you recover from something like that? How do you walk into your daughter’s life for the first time and make her love you? Was that even possible?”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“Standing there with him now felt like I was experiencing another death. Somehow, I had to find a way to say good-bye to him and to all of this—to bury our history deep in the ground. I reminded myself that it was impossible to go back. We weren’t the same people we once were,”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“We were supposed to love each other forever. I’d always believed we would, that we were inseparable. Soul mates from the first moment our eyes met. How did this happen?”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“Life is full of unknowns,” she replied. “You can’t escape them, no matter how hard you try.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“but I don’t know if peace is ever possible when you’ve lost a child.” His words caused a swell of sadness in me because I knew he was right. I’d never stop missing my beautiful son. Not in this lifetime.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“All I know is that I didn’t want to risk sending myself into a fiery pit of despair for the rest of eternity because I wasn’t strong enough to stick it out, to keep on living until my time came.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“contemplated suicide. Part of the reason was because I didn’t want to go on living without my sweet baby boy. I missed him terribly and my guilt was beyond excruciating. It was the worst kind of torture imaginable. I just wanted to end my suffering.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“set the iPod in the dock and gently shift my newborn baby boy in my arms so that his cheek rests on my shoulder. When the music starts to play, I dance slowly around the living room, rocking him to and fro. I feel such joy, I begin to wonder if I’ve died and gone to heaven.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“I hold him in my arms most of the time, whether he’s awake or asleep, because I’m so in love, I don’t want to set him down. The depth of my feeling is inconceivable. I can barely fathom it. I never knew such love was possible. He’s the most beautiful thing in the universe to me, and I can’t stop staring at him…adoring him….”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“They would have known that life has ups and downs, and we must go on, and even if the heart can’t mend completely, there will be joy in other places, somewhere further down the road. I understood that now.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining

“Proof of Heaven.”
― Julianne MacLean, The Color of a Silver Lining