Before I Let Go Quotes

“Love me or hate me if you want, I don't care. But do it for all that I am, with all that I am.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“But I want my life to have meaning because I give it meaning, not because someone else says that it does. I want my life to mean something because I create. Because I love. Because I make the world a better place.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“Death is a thief... It slips into our lives and steals what we care about most. It breaks us, and even when we piece ourselves together again, the pain remains.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“It doesn't have to be a happily ever after or a happily always. Just a happily once. A happily sometimes. Hope. That'd make our pain worth it.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“We must not deny our fear. We have to remember to be afraid. And we have to go on anyway.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“But together we held our darkness up to the light, and it became easier to carry because we were not alone.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“I would give up every single star in the night sky to have another day with her.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“The stars we see in the night sky are so far away that it takes years for us to see it when they die. I can't help but wonder if Kyra had burned out long before I left - and if we simply hadn't seen it.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“She saw a future that none of us could see yet. She believed in a future, and for that, we believed in her.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“We’ll go farther than anyone in Lost ever has. Adventurers, looking for stories and stars.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“We’ll build a bridge. A bridge between us.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“This is how I will remember her. And with every corner I turn, I will still expect to see her. With every constellation I observe, I'll wonder about stories as well as science. I'll build a bridge to her. I'll look for falling stars.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“You're my best friend. I love you endless days and endless nights. You're stuck with me.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“But as much as the town believed in her, they still didn't value her enough to save her. And I lost myself to the world outside the town's borders. I forgot about her too.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“Grandfather always said that stories are the heartbeat of the world, especially in Alaska. Stories shape us. They give meaning to the harshest winters and the longest summers.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“I used to tease Kyra about her fascination with comics, but she took it in stride.
"People have used art and graphics to tell stories for centuries," she said once. "We could all do with more heroes and tricksters and storytellers."
I told her, "I'd rather have stars than heroes.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“Hers is a story that deserves to be told. Hers is a story that deserves to be heard. It's the story of a girl who believed in heroes and wanted to be one herself. Who saw stories in the world around her, and who regaled an entire Alaskan town with them. And hers is a story of how they started to believe her.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“Kyra rested her head back on the pillow. "We'll go farther than anyone in Lost ever has. Adventurers, looking for stories and stars."
"But we'll always come home, right?" I asked.
She looked up at me. "Maybe. Maybe I'll get lost on the ice instead.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“We fly to an otherworldly place, one that does not play by the same rules. The evergreens wear an armor of snow. The air shimmers with cold.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“Intent only takes us so far. It's a shield people hide behind, but not a weapon.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go

“By the third day, everyone...had passed her at least half a dozen times, and they seemed to have forgotten about her entirely. "It gives me a chance to look ...from a different perspective...".”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Before I Let Go