I'm Still Standing Quotes

“If you make a mistake because of pressure from somebody else, you don’t come away with a lesson, you come away with anger and blame.”
― Colleen Coleman, I'm Still Standing

“He was wonderful, your dad – the love of my life. I knew he was the one for me. He listened to me. He always paid attention. There is no greater way to show love than by paying full attention. Inspecting the tiny details of someone else’s character like they are precious diamonds,”
― Colleen Coleman, I'm Still Standing

“crease in my heart for so very long. If there’s one”
― Colleen Coleman, I'm Still Standing

“That’s a very limited way to live. Life can be much broader once you understand one simple fact: everything around you was made up by people who were no smarter than you, no better than you; it’s just that they were really brave. And if you can find your courage, you can change whatever you need to, you can be in charge of your life and you can live the biggest, boldest life you can dream of. Once you”
― Colleen Coleman, I'm Still Standing

“wake up to the moment I creep into the flat and collapse into my sister’s bed, I am fully alive, in the moment, thinking of nothing but what I am doing right here, right now. And that feels so liberating. Free from the regrets of the past and the pressures of the future. Just being here – just being – is more than enough.”
― Colleen Coleman, I'm Still Standing

“We used to do stuff together. Nice stuff. We used to be happy. She used to laugh and joke around, but now she just moans and sighs and sometimes shouts and yells.’ He flicks me a look. ‘I’m just saying how it is, Evelyn.’ I need to sit on my hands to steady them, I’m that angry. This marriage counselling was supposed to be about James realising he was a crappy husband; this is not about me. I nag and snap and yell because he makes me do it! If he just did what he was supposed to, when he was supposed to, and to a decent standard, I’d not have to go on at him like I do. My face is flushed with infuriation. I need to get myself together. I can’t sit here with a red face and”
― Colleen Coleman, I'm Still Standing