The Night Olivia Fell Quotes

“He had the air of someone who imagines he can negotiate with gravity.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“But there are no redos in life. You can’t go back and make things better. All you can do is live with it and move forward.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“You don’t have to be right one hundred percent of the time to show you love someone.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“To feel love was to feel fear—you just couldn’t let it dictate your life. Love was a risk, but it opened up a world of possibility, one you would never experience without it.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“Sometimes the rest of your life arrived by simply saying good-bye.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“Trust, I’d learned, was the greatest gift you could give, the greatest gift to receive. The belief that a person wouldn’t betray you required a strength and confidence”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“reminded me that the first hour of every new day starts with darkness—and then the sunshine comes.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“Suicide of a parent, that type of abandonment, it did things to a person. It didn’t take a shrink to tell me that I didn’t trust people to stay because my mom had promised she’d be there and then wasn’t.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“Loss, death, a broken heart, no matter how figurative, was unbearable. There was never a guarantee you wouldn’t lose those you loved.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“Being a parent is one long process of daring yourself to let go. Sometimes worry and love and control, all get jumbled up until you can't see the difference.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“Trust, I’d learned, was the greatest gift you could give, the greatest gift to receive. The belief that a person wouldn’t betray you required a strength and confidence I was only just finding. Trusting someone else, having a partner, meant I was living.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“think coming. I would make them see me, take me seriously.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“I was ten and she was twenty, when our mother left me on Sarah’s front step with nothing but a backpack of dirty clothes. She’d gone home and killed herself that very day, leaving Sarah to raise me.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“I hit the river on my back, my eyes fastened on the bridge’s soaring spires illuminated by a flickering streetlamp.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“Our cheeks were stretched wide with laughter. We were laughing because we knew each other and we were alive and because there was so much to look forward to. She was my mom and I was her daughter, and there was nothing more important than that.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“What do you do when you know something and nobody will listen? When you need answers and nobody will provide them? When you can’t trust anybody to help you?”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“You don't have to be right one hundred percent of the time to show you love someone. And she doesn't have to be perfect to be well loved.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell

“Their eyes landed like hot wax against my face, and then slid away.”
― Christina McDonald, The Night Olivia Fell