The Story of Our Secrets Quotes

“get to the door. Anyway, they’ve stuck it on a poster on the wall now so I can’t miss it. Colm O’Flynn. Stay in yer fecking bed, ya eejit. I dictated that to Mike, the nurse on night shift, and he wrote it up for me. He says if anyone asks me, I’ve to deny it was him. That’s not such a tough ask – I forget who did it at least half a dozen times a day. That thought ends and it takes me a moment to get to the next one. The gaps are the worst bit, because sometimes I get the fear that another one won’t come. That’s why I have to get these videos finished. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not giving up. They can tell me I’m a dying man all they like, but I still think the treatment will work, it’ll buy me some time and then someone, somewhere will come up with an even better treatment or cure for this thing. It’s got to happen because I’m not ready to go yet. Nope, not at all. But”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“caring about someone isn’t the same as caring for them.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“I nodded, overwhelmed that all the people I loved had intervened. We were a dysfunctional bunch sometimes, but I knew, with a bit of interference from Colm, that we’d find our way past every problem and we’d do it together.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“If I had a single tear left in me, I’d have cried with relief that the bitching was back, because that meant the love was too.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“No more secrets. If we were going to move on, everything had to be out there, no matter how much it hurt when it was my turn to take the place in the centre of the storm.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“All because each one of us had, really, just been seeking someone to love, and someone to love us back. The problem was, we’d overcomplicated it all by adding layers of conditions and exclusions and rules. We’d all lived such intertwined lives that we knew the best of each other and the worst of each other, so there were no fresh starts, no hiding of flaws or failures. Just four open wounds looking for someone to heal us.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“That man loves you and if you think you can be happy with him, I want you to try.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“You deserve another partner, an equal, someone who can be there even in the crap times, when you need someone to lean on. More than that, m’darlin’, you deserve to laugh that gorgeous laugh of yours, to find true happiness and to have someone to love you until the end of time.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“guess what I’m trying to say is that if there’s a chance that you can have happiness with Vincent, or with someone else, after I’m gone, I need you to take it.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“Annie. Vince. Me. She’d adored Colm too. It was nothing but laughter and love, and the pain of the void that left was so strong it physically hurt. For years now I’d been just existing, going through the motions, and I knew it was because of the bloody great hole they had left in my heart.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“everyone our age has fucked up at some time, they’ve done things they regret, they’ve made wrong moves and bad decisions. We’re too old for fairy tales.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“My mother harrumphed, which was something that I didn’t think people actually did outside bad sitcoms.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“Urgh. Save us from children who use our own values against us and force us to practise what we preach, dammit.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“Bugger. Was there a Taylor Swift song that covered this level of romantic complexity? If so, we could really do with her words of wisdom.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“Urgh, I hate it when you’re logical and make sense,’ Lulu groaned. ‘I’ve no idea why we’re friends. I much prefer neurotic and irrational.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“She was ride or die – as long as you didn’t mind a few bumps on every road.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“Things not any better?’ She shook her head. ‘Nope. But I think it’s my fault too. I’m so pissed off with him for sidelining me that I’m not making any effort either. How could this happen? How could I have been so fricking stupid? Even St Taylor of the Swift would tell me I’m a daft cow for this one.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“If someone wants you to do something and it doesn’t feel right, then don’t do it. If that person is a true friend, or a true love, they’ll back off and respect your decision. If”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“I can’t stand the thought that you’ll feel a day of pain in your life, or that you’ll come across people who won’t treat you well, but that’s life, m’darlin’. The important thing is that you spot them and ditch them and don’t look back. Everyone makes mistakes, so have some forgiveness for the folk you love, but if someone doesn’t see you for the incredible girl you are, and the mighty woman you’ll become, then cut them loose, because that’s the only way you’ll find the people who deserve you.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“There’s a long-established tool in counselling that involves writing down what you want to say to someone and then burning the paper and letting those feelings go.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“More than that, m’darlin’, you deserve to laugh that gorgeous laugh of yours, to find true happiness and to have someone to love you until the end of time.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“We’d all lived such intertwined lives that we knew the best of each other and the worst of each other, so there were no fresh starts, no hiding of flaws or failures. Just four open wounds looking for someone to heal us.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“It was nothing to do with me and everything to do with him just wanting to escape a reality that he couldn’t bear.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“make sure that person deserves you. It’ll take someone pretty special to match up to that heart of yours.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“I want you to laugh every day, to seek out things that make you happy. Love whoever you choose to love,”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“but if someone doesn’t see you for the incredible girl you are, and the mighty woman you’ll become, then cut them loose, because that’s the only way you’ll find the people who deserve you.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“I can’t stand the thought that you’ll feel a day of pain in your life, or that you’ll come across people who won’t treat you well, but that’s life, m’darlin’.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“you also have to get to a point where your happiness is real and not an act that you put on for everyone else.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“They always end up marrying the bloke who was their best friend and secretly in love with them all along.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“if I had the choice of living these fifteen years with you, or fifty years with someone else, I’d choose you in every lifetime”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets