Sunny Days and Sea Breezes Quotes

“I’ve been through a terrible time, but I’ve survived and I’m still here. I have a lot in my life to be thankful for. I’m young - relatively speaking. I’m healthy and, by most people’s reckoning, wealthy. I have life experiences and, for all the sad times, I’ve been blessed by an equal amount of good times. It’s not all been plain sailing - far from it - but I’ve weathered the storm and have come out on the other side of it, battered, bruised, but not broken.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“Life is short. You of all people know that. Don’t spend it with the wrong person.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“So that has to be a good thing, right? Given time, I suppose, he’ll be a distant memory.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“If anyone tells you that shopping isn’t fabulous therapy, then don’t believe them.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“but I’m not ready to leave and the longer I’m here, the more I want to stay.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“I don’t know whether it’s the company or the place, but this is the happiest I’ve felt in a very long.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“How do you become like her, so relentlessly optimistic and cheerful, despite having life throwing at you one of the cruelest blows that it can?”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“But every day is an adventure. When you get up in the morning, you never know what it might bring. Sometimes it’s wonderful, sometimes it’s heartache. Those of us who are here should make sure we enjoy every moment to honour those who aren’t.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“I’ve known loss, proper loss, love. Loss that makes you wonder how you can even keep breathing.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“This is why I don’t talk to people. My heartache is always there, just beneath the surface, and it only takes a tiny scratch to expose it.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“I’m frightened that I can’t hold back the tears and I don’t want to cry in front of a stranger. This is why I had to get away from people who knew me. I’d keep breaking down in meetings, in the hairdressers, at the gym. I can’t watch films or even listen to music without welling up.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“I have no appetite, but I do try to remember to eat regularly. I used to love my food, but everything now tastes like sawdust. I eat just to stay alive and, sometimes, I confess that there seems little point in that.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“But sometimes the people who should love you the most are the ones who cause you the most hurt.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“It sounds as if I know what I'm doing, as if there was a plan. But I don't and there wasn't. I only know that I had to get away to a place where no one knows me, where I don't keep having the same conversation over and over, where I don't have to talk at all.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“But every day is an adventure. When you get up in the morning, you never know what it might bring. Sometimes it's wonderful, sometimes it's heartache. Those of us who are here should make sure we enjoy every moment to honour those who aren't.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes

“musical but I can’t string three notes together.”
― Carole Matthews, Sunny Days and Sea Breezes