The Castaways Quotes

“You know that feeling when you read a good book, and you’re totally transported to the world within those pages? Your imagination has travelled there – and yet your body is not fooled: it knows you haven’t left the sofa.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“As I watched, hands on the wheel, indicator ticking, I thought how much I wanted that. A passion. Something that makes you pull over, just to look at something. To feel it.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“Hope is all that remains when concrete, tangible facts have scattered.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“But emotions don’t come parcelled neatly. They’re shaken together and messy. Happiness laced with sadness. Hope tangled with fear. Love shadowed by loss. It isn’t about waiting until I’m in a better place. Striving for a happy life. It’s about having a feeling life.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“For so long, I’ve believed that I should only feel pleasure when I no longer feel all the other things: the sadness, the loss, the fear. But emotions don’t come parcelled neatly. They’re shaken together and messy. Happiness laced with sadness. Hope tangled with fear. Love shadowed by loss. It isn’t about waiting until I’m in a better place. Striving for a happy life. It’s about having a feeling life.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“Make your bed and get dressed. That’s all you need to do each day. Just that, okay?”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“I once thought of journalism as something frontline and essential, that educates, informs, grows awareness. But now I’m not so sure. There’s a salacious underbelly to it, because what we’re really selling is fear.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“She wanted her sister to do that annoying thing of shoving her cold, bare feet under Lori’s thighs.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

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― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“crazy? She swallowed. Her mouth was paper-dry. She took a small bottle”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“For so long I believed that I should only feel pleasure when I no longer feel all the other things: the sadness, the loss, the fear. But emotions don't come parcelled neatly. They're shaken together and messy. Happiness laced with sadness. Hope tangled with fear. Love shadowed by loss. It isn't about waiting until I'm in a better place. Striving for a happy life. It's about feeling life.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“Life is too short to get stuck in the wrong one,”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“emotions don’t come parcelled neatly. They’re shaken together and messy.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“Sometimes the What ifs overwhelm me with their limitless answers and outcomes. But of course, there is only one outcome. The now. This moment.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“She’d never been driven by the promise of a high-flying career, hankered after a big pay packet, or wanted to march out into the corporate world. She wanted a family. She wanted to be a stay-at-home mum. That wasn’t something you admitted these days. Women wanted more than that – to work, to mother, to cook, to be cooked for – and good for them. Lori was wholeheartedly cheering them on. But that wasn’t what she wanted. Just a family.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

“Grief, well, it either cements a relationship, or corrodes it.”
― Lucy Clarke, The Castaways