Only Ever Her Quotes

“But this is what she knows - tragedy brings out the best and worst in people. The state of suspended reality that comes with a tragedy can make people believe that nothing they do right now counts. There is a freedom that comes with that feeling, a pass to do anything you want, damn the consequences.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“Ariel Lawhon, you know what a terrible human I can be and yet you love me anyway. That’s the true definition of a best friend. Thank you for the gift of your friendship. Ashley was right—it really is like no other.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“We talked about the kind of things that don’t really matter in the end but you talk about anyway. Because at the time they seem like they need sayin’.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“For a frantic moment, she wonders if this, too, has been lost, if Minnie has lost her one remaining memory. Clary cannot take one more thing going wrong. She tries again with another standard from the story she knows by heart. “Family is the most important thing.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“Tragedy doesn’t just happen to a person. It happens to a community.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“the more you think something, the more it becomes truth in your life—whether it’s actually true or not.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“But this is what she knows—tragedy brings out the best and the worst in people. The state of suspended reality that comes with a time of tragedy can make people believe that nothing they do right now counts. There is a freedom that comes with that feeling, a pass to do anything you want, damn the consequences.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“The door reveals what must be Clary’s bedroom. Feeling guilty for breaching her privacy, she quickly shuts the door. But not before she registers that Clary’s room is a juxtaposition of old and new, of past and present. Laurel’s room at her parents’ home is much the same: a ratty stuffed bunny sits beside an over-the-counter sleep aid, makeup brushes hunker in a clay pot formed by ten-year-old hands. The girl she was coexists with the woman she has become.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“He liked the smell of her old car, the way it reminded him of a unique mixture of the half-drunk coffee cups always sitting in the cupholders, drive-through french fry splurges, and her soap. The way her car smelled like her. Her new car smells like nothing.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“time”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“She’s heard that confession is good for the soul. But the one person she truly should confess to has gone missing.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“He sees the earlier model, not the current one. It is a trick of love, she thinks. The best trick of all.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“There are no rules for this type of thing. There are times in life when there simply aren’t, and it is up to us to write our own.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“I said, “O that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. I would flee far away and stay in the desert; I would hurry to my place of shelter, far from the tempest and storm.” Psalm 55: 6–8”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“The enemy of great writing is distraction”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“One thing she knows about lies - once they start to stack up, they can topple over, crushing you under the weight of them.”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her

“The trick to keeping a secret is you just have to do it every day, day after day”
― Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, Only Ever Her