The Coldest Winter Quotes

“Who told you that those who are depressed are not deserving of love?” Me. My mind. My thoughts. He tapped the side of his head. “Every thought that comes in here, young man, is not an honest one. Learn to filter out the bullshit, even if it’s loud.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“I love you always. And then a little bit more after that. Find me in the sunrises. I’ll always be there, waiting to shine on you.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“You noticed that in people when you were hurting yourself—how their pain mirrored your own.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“The only thing more terrifying than feeling all your feelings is feeling absolutely nothing at all.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“because it’s like she’s still here when I get to share.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“I feel happy when people ask me about my mother. I love talking about her”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“Grief was a complex creature. One day, you were sad, and the next day filled you with rage.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“okay.” “I’m learning that time passing doesn’t make it easier. Sometimes it just makes the grief quieter.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“Star, we come into this life with only one promise—that someday we will leave it. Death is the final act of everyone’s story. We all know this. The problem is so many people live life as if they are already dead, going through the motions of what they think they are supposed to do instead of living their most authentic lives.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“I was so tired of endings. Endings made me never want to begin anything again.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“Because the only thing I’d ever known about love, true love, was how it could break a person. How they could shatter and lose themselves to said love. My father loved my mother, and then she was gone. When she’d left, a part of him died that very same day.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“My brain knew I was playing with fire, but my heart didn’t care about the burns.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“Like Ross and Rachel from Friends?” he questioned. “Do you both know you’re on a break? Because that didn’t work out too well for them.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“Maybe that’s the thing about progress. Maybe it has to look messy for a while before it can look good again.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“He always treated Mom like she was his queen, and he was a peasant who was lucky to even exist in her orbit.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“Du fehlst mir jetzt schon, dabei bist du noch hier. - Du hast mir schon gefehlt, bevor ich überhaupt wusste, dass es dich gibt.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“That was the thing about grief—it didn’t discriminate. It simply made everyone drown.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“I’m learning that time passing doesn’t make it easier. Sometimes it just makes the grief quieter.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“You don’t have to explain to me why I can’t kiss you, Star. I get it. I’m not a dumbass, and I’d never want to put you or your job at risk. But after seeing you today, seeing you free, I just wanted you to realize you are everything I’d ever want in a person, and if I could, I would kiss you for the rest of my life without a second of hesitation or doubt.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“The first year is the hardest. That’s what I remember from when I lost my mother. I remember feeling as if the world were moving in slow motion, yet somehow spinning wildly out of control at a wicked speed all at once.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter

“No, by all means, stroke it. I love being stroked. Tell her, Star. Tell her how I love being stroked.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Coldest Winter