Hello Stranger Quotes

“All hellos ultimately have their goodbyes. And all goodbyes hurt so much harder if the love they are founded on is so damn strong. Still, all hellos with people you love are worth it. They are all worth their weight in gold.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“My journey has taught me to use my energy in a positive way. Don’t angst, don’t stress and don’t worry. The shit that’s going to happen is going to happen anyway.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“it was crazy, just how a hello, stranger on the train can turn into something that sets your life on a whole new road.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“Reading time was the only time I ever truly allowed myself.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“I guess that’s fate, though, isn’t it? It rocks into your world and taps its magic wand and there you are, staring out at a horizon that blows your mind.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“The moment is now. It’s always now. Not about reliving the past or dreaming up the future, it’s in the here and now. Enjoy as many of those moments as you can, because they never come twice, my love.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“Fun. I was becoming ever more familiar with the concept since the Chloe whirlwind slammed into my world.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“Love leads to loss. Loss leads to pain. Therefore, all love ends in pain.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“Life’s fragility makes all love fragile.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“Hope was more often than not a false high that led to a greater low.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“I couldn’t take the flipside of the very same coin. The flatness, and the disappointment and the nothing. Because that’s what this was now, my life with Liam. It was nothing.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“People resign themselves to be a product of what has happened to them without realising that they have a choice of who to be in any given moment. Change takes an instant.” Another pause as she rasped in her breaths. “My journey has taught me to use my energy in a positive way. Don’t angst, don’t stress and don’t worry. The shit that’s going to happen is going to happen anyway.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“Every moment truly is magical, just so long as your eyes aren’t blind to the wonders.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“I really do hope there is such a thing as a heaven, or an afterlife, because the prospect of another chance of time with you is enough to make me smile, even if my fingers are getting too weak to write this.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“what is it you want to be remembered for? What do you want your final part of the road to mean?”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“It’s the tiny things that we need to appreciate, all day, every day. And if things go crap and need sorting, they need sorting. No looking back and dwelling on the past. No blaming things for what’s happened. You just do it. Done. Dusted. Move on.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“Don’t angst, don’t stress and don’t worry. The shit that’s going to happen is going to happen anyway.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“People resign themselves to be a product of what has happened to them without realising that they have a choice of who to be in any given moment. Change takes an instant.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“You can think you’ve prepared for a whole fucking decade, but losing someone you love is always going to put you on your knees.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“both of us so caught up in this fatal craving that we were fireworks, soaring up to explode, set to fall down in tatters and ashes in the fatal aftermath.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“I’d almost forgotten what that felt like to feel happiness right the way through me.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“Her fingers reached out and gripped mine, hard. Her stare was full of fire, in a body of ashes.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“As my eyes held hers, both of us fixed in that moment, I felt the little boy in me crying. Breaking at the knowledge that the woman who’d always been my light in the dark would be leaving me soon. It meant shit that I was a man now, strong in a world of cold hard rationale – my mum was dying in front of me, slowly, one precious day at a time.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“The moment is now, Chloe. It’s always now. Not about reliving the past or dreaming up the future, it’s in the here and now. Enjoy as many of those moments as you can, because they never come twice, my love.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“I was smiling in a way that had been lost to me for a long, long time.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“She gripped my hand in a vice with hers, and slapped it to her chest. “This is where it counts. Not how compatible you are. Not where you met her. None of that crap. What matters is here. In the heart.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“her big blue eyes searching mine, and it was intoxicating all over again, that much enthusiasm my way from such a pretty, buoyant creature”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“It’s ok,” I told her. “You can talk about it. Death is death. People gloss over it and avoid the topic as much as possible, but it doesn’t change a thing. My mother upstairs is dying. She knows it, I know it. It’s just a matter of time now.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“even though I felt as examined as I’d ever felt, I didn’t feel judged by her. Not in the slightest.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger

“He had me. Every part of me, claimed by every part of him.”
― Jade West, Hello Stranger