Moment in Time Quotes

“It has always puzzled Chloe why falling in love should be regarded as some sort of wondrous event when so often it ends in despair, the scars leaving hard calluses on your heart along with hard-boiled bitterness and deep-seated fear of ever opening yourself up to that sort of hurt again.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“Everyone has a history, and if there’s one thing she’s sure of, it’s that the only way forward is to come to terms with the path you walked to get where you are.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“Grief has its own watch,” Mo says, repeating the words her psychiatrist said to her eight years ago, when she was struggling to come to terms with the accident and Finn’s and Oz’s deaths. “We can’t rush it, and we can’t stop it. It needs to run its course, and all we can do is allow it to carry us to its end.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“decision on. Dream like you have all the time in the world. Live like there’s no tomorrow,”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“We can’t rush it, and we can’t stop it. It needs to run its course, and all we can do is allow it to carry us to its end.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“Grief has its own watch,”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“It’s okay to remember, baby, but regret’s a waste of the time we have left.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“Sometimes, in our darkest moments,” she says softly, “we need someone else to shine a light.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“apologize not for something they’d done but for being the sort of person who would do such a thing.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“Alone for the first time, Mo closes her eyes and focuses on her breathing. She counts backward from a hundred in fives, and when she reaches zero, she counts forward in fours. It’s a technique she uses when she’s struggling with turning off her brain so she can sleep.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“Most people believe suicide is impulsive, a rash decision made in a moment of deep despair. For some, it is. But what Hazel is doing is not impulsive in the least. After carefully considering her options, she has decided this is the course she most wants to take. The idea is not abstract, rash, or irrational. The opposite. It is well thought out and contemplated from every angle. Not seeing a path forward, she is choosing instead to end the journey, either because she’s decided the pain is too much or because she is searching for peace. For Chloe, it was both. With”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“Sadness doesn’t last forever.” It’s something a shrink told her a long time ago. At the time, Chloe didn’t believe her. At the time, she didn’t believe anything anyone who was trying to help told her. But it turned out she was right. Impossible as it seems, even the worst grief eventually dulls, and life replaces it. Small moments of brightness that were impossible at first breaking through, little nothings that seem insignificant, until one day, you’re sitting there, going about your business, and you realize you almost have to work to remember your sorrow.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“The clinical term is the letdown effect. During acute stress, the body releases hormones and adrenaline, which protect you against pain and fatigue, but once the pressure is lifted, those same chemicals drop, your dopamine levels get knocked down, and your system crashes.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“We do not control our reactions,” her mom said when she confessed the awful truth. They were at the hospital, where Mo was recovering from frostbite, her fingers and toes in danger of infection. “Only our actions.”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time

“Start and end with a smile,”
― Suzanne Redfearn, Moment in Time