You'd Be Home Now Quotes

“You can’t put your life on hold for somebody else, you know? Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to make yourself happy. And if you’re not, like, solid with yourself, how can you help somebody else?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“How dare you waste a life you haven’t even lived yet.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Someone I used to know said that’s the problem with adults. They just see kids as they want them to be, what they aren’t, and not as they are. I think about that all the time. Like, how much time and pain and suffering could be eliminated if you just accepted the kid in front of you and stopped trying to fix them. Maybe there is no “fixing.” Maybe there is just heartbreak and love and trying to help them stay alive, whatever it takes.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“How glorious it is to drown”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“We could all probably be a little more benevolent in life. We all live here, after all. We all share the same mighty good company of the stars at night, and everyone deserves kindness, and survival. Everyone deserves to be seen.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Sometimes your life falls to ash and you sift through, waiting for the pain to pass, looking for the remnants in the debris, something to save, when really all you need is right there, inside you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Now, as then, I don’t know if I fully understand what happens in the novel, but I loved it anyway. Isn’t that strange? To love something you can’t fully grasp?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“The thing about being invisible is, you’d think it would feel light and airy and easy, no pressure, but it doesn’t. It’s the heaviest thing I’ve ever known.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Invisibility does that to you. Strips away fancy layers, leaves just the bones and blood. Just enough to get around.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“they should hold your hand when you go out together, no matter what. And they should never walk in front of you. They should walk next to you, because you walk through life together, do you understand?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“You can be around people every day of your life and not really see them, you know? They’re just a collection of things,”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Because when we talk about addiction, we have to talk about collateral damage: the mental health of the kids and adults surrounding the addict. How do you live when your life has been upended by someone else’s health crisis? When you feel guilty about wanting to go to a dance, or be kissed, or go away to college, because right next to you, someone else is suffering?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“That your whole life, it seems like no one ever really sees you, they just see what they want to see, what they need to see. They never see the holes inside you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“I love you, Emmy, but you have no idea what it's like to be me.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“A smart person once told me that life is working against us all the time, inside and outside us, in a thousand different and silent ways that are invisible to us, and there is nothing we can do about it. You just have to do the best you can and go on, and hope for the best.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“I love you... Please let me help you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Isn't it strange? To love something you can't fully grasp?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“this: sometimes the waves knock you down and it seems like you won’t have the strength to push back up, but you do, because whatever the water takes down, it gives back. But you have to adapt or die. Now, go swim.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“The young should not die before the old,” she says. “How dare you waste a life you haven’t even lived yet.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“I keep thinking how much I love you I keep wanting love to be enough Because if it was You’d be home now”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“To appreciate what I have, in the here and now. To not miss it. Because it might be gone, at any moment. And we can’t control that, no matter how hard we try. Whatever the universe is, it’s always got the upper hand and we only have this one chance.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“but that’s what you do. You get up every day and try to love your people, even if they make it hard. Because what else do you have, in the end.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“It’s not that I liked it or didn’t like it, but I felt safe there. I felt like I was in a little cocoon, almost. No more Mom, no more Dad. No more disappointing them and you. I felt safe. Like all the noise was gone.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“All we can do is love him.” It’s out of my mouth before I can stop it. “But we always loved him and still—” “Emmy.” He takes my hand. “It’s all we can ever do. It’s the one thing we cannot stop doing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“You don’t know what is going to happen, or how things are going to end, and we probably get into way too much trouble trying to plan for and predict these things.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“We were all young once. And we had our nervous breakdowns and our cancers and our heartbreaks and our anger and we hid them and pretended they didn’t exist and we moved on because everyone said we should. And we’re not one iota better for it. Not one. Let them have this. Just this. Let them be tender, Walter.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“The face of addiction is you and me and everyone.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“You deserve better than to be a secret, Emmy. You don't have to take scraps. You can have the whole damn thing if you want it.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now