A Day Like This Quotes

“What I believe is that people have an innate need to apply meaning to things that confuse them, and humans seem to have a natural fascination with the mysterious and spooky. It excites us. And we embrace it. But that doesn’t mean it’s real. And, more simply, memory is just—inaccurate. It changes every day.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Some choices are easier than others. The key is to be at peace in the moment. To celebrate the here and now. No life is perfect, I’ve learned. But if you’re lucky, it can come pretty close.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Some choices are easier than others. The key is to be at peace in the moment.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Memory is ephemeral; it shifts.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Every life has choices. Do we take the job or don’t we? Do we buy the house or not? Do we break off the engagement or go through with the wedding? Do we go through the yellow light or wait? Our path—the people we love, the life we lead—is forever altered by each decision large and small.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“She tapped on her book. “You see, many people believe that what we call ghosts aren’t really ghosts after all. Rather, they’re projections of people who are very much alive in another time and place.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Embrace the unknown and—’” “‘See what unfolds when we get there,”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Hiraeth, calling upon the wistful and beautiful Welsh word that described the bittersweet longing for lost places and persons—those either real or having never existed at all.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“MY INTENTION IS TO CAPTURE THE LONGING FOR LOST PLACES AND THE WHISPERS OF ROADS NOT CHOSEN. —ANNIE BEYERS Seeing one’s name in 174-point font could be a bit humbling even on the best of days, and I hoped I could live up to the expectation.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“grow. If there were an opposite of a green thumb, it was mine,”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“The flowers had forever reminded me of clean sheets and fresh air and hope.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“I might never remember just how unpleasant things had ultimately gotten between us, but I knew deep down that there had been a darkness that we couldn’t overcome. One or two mistakes can be remedied, but more than that and the path veers off somewhere into a new direction that can’t be fixed, no matter how hard we want to go back.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“brand-new and it feels as if you have known them for your entire life.” She glanced at Jonathan, then back to me, and my eyes met his for an extra beat as we both shifted in our seats as she looked on, amused. “Those sorts of things. If there are, indeed, multiple versions of ourselves out there, living different but similar lives, it may manifest as a constant restlessness or inability to find contentment in the life you have. Maybe a little boy grew up dreaming of being a firefighter but was forced to go into his father’s furniture business instead. In another life perhaps he did get to be a firefighter. And somewhere deep inside, he connects with that reality. He feels it and longs for it. It’s like a door cracks open for a fraction of a second and the subconscious gets to peek inside.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“knew the road by muscle memory,”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“That’s good. It’s a”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Some choices are easier than others. The key is to be at peace in the moment. To celebrate the here and now. No life is perfect, I've learned. But if you're lucky, it can come pretty close.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Some choices are easier than others. The key is to be at peace in the moment. To celebrate the here and now. No life is perfect, I’ve learned.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This