The Next Thing You Know Quotes

“Time is the biggest, most elusive gift anyone can possess or give or share. Under the wrong circumstances, it can be mistaken for a curse.
Under the right ones, you can never have enough.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“The number one regret of patients who are . . . counting down . . . They wish they’d had the courage to live the life they’ve always felt they were meant to live. To live bigger, really go for it, you know?”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“We had a lot of Moments with a capital M. The kind that already feel like memories as they’re happening.
Only one of us would get to keep them for very long.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“There’s nothing more we can do, doctors always tell the most dire patients.
But there was so much more I could do.
So much I hadn’t done.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“One way or another, when this is over, things between us will never be the same.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“Numbness is not the absence of feeling. Rather, it's often overload, too many emotions coming at you at once.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“numbness is not the absence of feeling. Rather, it’s often overload, too many emotions coming at you at once.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“You might call my freest moments reckless, and you might be right. All I know is, those moments where my heart or my body or my sanity was on the line?
Those were the moments I felt most alive.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“If he’d met Nova years ago, he’d have written a song for her.
A song like that, he couldn’t write for someone else to play. He had to play it himself.
No point in writing it then. No matter how much he itched to.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know