Oona Out of Order Quotes

“All good things end, always. The trick is to enjoy them while they last.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“There would be bad days, there always would. But she'd collect these good days, each one illuminated, and string them together until they glowed brightly in her memory like Christmas lights in a mirrored room.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Time heals all. But what if time itself is the disease?”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Make your life more about letting in the good things than preventing the bad things.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“But there was a freedom in making mistakes, feeling broken, falling into the void, and then climbing out. A freedom in letting go, setting aside, moving on.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Stop micromanaging your life and just live it; joy and meaning will follow. Find the happy medium between being daring and responsible. Cultivate that balance. Do your best. Be good to yourself, even when—especially when—life isn’t being good to you.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Dogs and books, two excellent defenses against solitude and despair.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“It felt as if my whole life had been shaped by the things people wouldn't say.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Is this what it means to get older, replaying happy memories because the best times are behind you?”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Hiraeth: homesickness for something that never was and never could be.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Oona stopped trusting the mirror years ago. After all it told only a sliver of the story. The mirror exposed time’s passage, yes, but eclipsed her heart’s true mileage. Each year the body was hers but her mind was out of sync with her reflection.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“You weren't adding chaos to my life. You were adding color.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“When I was growing up, Mama used to say what you dislike in other people is really what you dislike in yourself.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Oona was still learning, everytime she leaped no matter the year someone important would be absent from life. Every year bittersweet. But it would be okay. There would be bad days, there always would. But she'd collect these good days, each one illuminated, and string them together until they glowed brightly in her memory”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“the world is gonna carry on whether you spend the year moping in bed or exploring it.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Mama used to say what you dislike in other people is really what you dislike in yourself.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Anger is a poison and forgiveness is the antidote.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“But being able to buy anything put a spotlight on the things that couldn't be bought (lost friendship, lost love,lost time), human nature being prone to focus on what was lacking.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“That's the amazing thing about you. How sneaky your wisdom and how quiet your sacrifices.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Whichever the years flow it was impossible to outmaneuver their passage. Even chronology doesn't guarantee security. All good things ended. Always. The trick was to enjoy them when they lasted.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“And maybe youth isn’t wasted on the young; maybe the young know how to spend their youth just right.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“A hug that superseded platitudes like “I’m here for you” and “everything will be okay” while still conveying those things.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“How terrible it must be when the source of your pain is your own child.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“It was a compliment like a piece of candy dusted with arsenic.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Oona stopped trusting the mirror years ago. After all it told only a sliver of the story. The mirror exposed time’s passage, yes, but eclipsed her heart’s true mileage.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Hiraeth:”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Each year the body was hers, but her mind was out of sync with her reflection.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“She had to pretend she didn’t know what would happen next year. It was the only way she’d enjoy this one.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Seven years of disorientation and strange navigation. Seven years of wandering and wondering. Seven long years until she returned.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“ready to go, but the clock would have no sympathy. Her next leap would always hover on the horizon, unavoidable, waiting to whisk her away.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order