One Night on the Island Quotes

“Life is the stuff that happens in the cracks between your plans and expectations.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“And for a little while, he made me feel as if I'd swallowed stars.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“separation is made up of a million tiny disassociations that eventually add up to passing someone on the street and barely recognizing them.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Regrets get heavier as you get older.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“A little bit might be better than a lot because this way we get to walk away remembering only the best of each other.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“I, Cleo Wilder, do take myself, Cleo Wilder, to be my strongest advocate and my most loyal friend, my loudest cheerleader, and my most trusted confidante.” I pause and gaze out to sea, my palms resting on my knees, my hair swirling around my shoulders in the wind. I acknowledge I haven’t always been my own best friend, and I certainly haven’t always been my own strongest advocate. I’ve lingered too long in toxic relationships, and I’ve told myself to put up with things I’d tell a friend not to tolerate. “I promise to listen to myself, to take the time to hear the voice in my gut, because I know myself better than anyone and I always have my own best interests at heart. I’m wise enough to know when someone is disingenuous, and I know when enough is enough. I also know that I am enough, and I’m brave, and I will succeed. I won’t judge myself too harshly when I get things wrong, because everyone gets things wrong sometimes, but I won’t let myself off the hook without learning lessons either.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“You’re the micro–love of my life.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Being a father isn't supposed to be a bed of roses. It's not just pretty for a while and then disposable when it's useless to you. It's a forest, constantly changing, growing, evolving. It's shelter and roots and branches to climb and leaves to break their fall.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Life is the stuff that happens between the cracks in your plans and expectations.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“But then someone has to be the one who hangs up for the last time...don't they?”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“It's okay to be reckless with your internal organs in your twenties, but I'm thirty now and need more careful curation”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Every now and then, in just the right light at just the right nanosecond, you can capture the entire essence of a person in a single frame. This is one of those magic moments. I can hear her carefree laugh; I can see her innate goodness. If you didn’t know the person in this photograph, you’d want to. You’d look into her eyes for a while and you’d know that she’s someone who leaves a bright trail of starlight behind her, guiding lights for lost souls on the darkest of nights.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Don’t go building your wall so high you can’t climb over it.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“That’s the way it is sometimes, isn’t it? Life is the stuff that happens in the cracks between your plans and expectations.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Brianne has a look of genuine surprise on her face. “Cleo, that’s so great! We don’t get many new knitters on the island.” “The last one turned out to be a crocheter,” Dolores mutters, as dark as if she’d said murderer. “The audacity!” Delta’s green eyes dance. “Ma, you should have shoved her crochet hook right up her—”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Not many people make you feel as if you've swallowed stars.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Something has drawn us together for this perfect moonlit moment on these worn wooden steps, to this tender kiss that feels like it's been here all along, waiting patiently for us to find it. ...I close my eyes and lean into the feeling...”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“To beginnings and to inevitable ends.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“I’ll trust myself,’ I say. ‘I won’t be afraid to turn my ship around and sail in a different direction if the waters get choppy, even if it seemed like the right trajectory when I embarked.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Every now and then, I wish I could press pause on life and stay longer in a moment. This is one of those moments.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“I’ve brought myself here today, in front of Mother Nature, Neptune, and all the mermaids, to acknowledge that I, Cleo Wilder, do take myself, Cleo Wilder, to be my strongest advocate and my most loyal friend, my loudest cheerleader, and my most trusted confidante.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“Being a father isn't supposed to be a bed of roses," I say. "It's not just pretty for a while and then disposable when it's useless to you. It's a forest, constantly changing, growing, evolving. It's shelter and roots and branches to climb and leaves to break their fall.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“I am the canopy over their heads, the ground beneath their feet, the soft pile of leaves to land on. I am their forest. I am their home.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“I blow a kiss into my hands and release it, hoping the wind will catch it and carry it home to her, that it will slip in through an open window and she'll feel it settle around her shoulders like a scarf.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“...today is about self-acceptance, and that means it's about love, so I'm starting the day as I mean to go on.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“I'm a sea queen. I'm a force of nature.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“I don't know yet...if it'll feel like a book I shouldn't open, a sealed chapter that only we ever know was written.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“It doesn’t need to be fancy,’ Cleo presses on. ‘Anything will”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“I envy you," I say. "Nothing tying you down."
"And I envy your ties," she says simply.”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island

“An orchestra of comfort”
― Josie Silver, One Night on the Island