The Words We Lost Quotes

“I can't erase the darkness for you, but I can be the one to hold the light when you're ready to come home.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“God is often made visible by the hands and feet of the people He places in our lives.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“No heartache has ever gone unseen, and no darkness is ever too solid for light to overcome.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“A reminder that even though there are still things to talk and sing and laugh about in this life, there are also things to miss and lament and grieve, too. Both are welcome and both are necessary.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“Because we’ve both learned the hard way that falling in love is far simpler than staying in love.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“If you waste your heart on hate, you’ll miss the good life has to give.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“It was hers to make, mine to support, and God’s to control.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“no heartache has ever gone unseen and no darkness has ever been too dark for light to overcome.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“... but missing someone doesn't always have to be sad, does it? If not, then I'll miss you happy. And I'll miss you laughing. And I'll miss you with every ounce of joy I possess until I'm with you again.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“Success is a slow, long process of repetition.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“Grief is far more like a permanent squatter who doesn’t take no for an answer and who leaves your most cherished possessions ransacked and in tatters.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“Perhaps this was what love did to a person: It slowly turned up the temperature from within so that eventually the outside of a person had no choice but to match the warmth of the inside.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“that was the thing about loss, even when you didn’t make room for it, it showed up anyway, usually unannounced.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“My mom always says God sees every tear we cry—that He collects them in a bottle. And I guess, when I think about it, it makes sense that God would use the ocean as His bottles.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“He says the ocean is the only place big enough to hold all the sorrow in our world.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“Before I can even attempt to lower my heart rate, she's velcroed herself to me with the kind of hug one might extend if they held proof of a matched blood relation.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“Sometimes the happiest endings begin after a cliffhanger.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“Life was too unpredictable not to make a permanent declaration of what mattered most.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“milestone memories are the hardest to erase because they wedge themselves deepest into the soul.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“we can’t change the time we’ve spent, just how we choose to spend the time we have left.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“I’m learning that much like love, grief is meant to be shared.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“Funny how differently time is prioritized when it’s in short supply.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“I can’t erase the darkness for you, but I can be the one to hold the light when you’re ready to come home.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“She's given me a family, one who hadn't shied away from my father's struggles but had prayed for his victory, and grieved over his losses. The same way they'd grieved for mine.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“Turns out, there's no perfect way to tell a painful truth to someone you love.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“I'm simply trying to focus on having faith enough for today.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“I promised God long ago that I would look for the good in every season of life He gives me, even the hard ones. And right now, I'm looking straight into the eyes of the good that came from the season I shared with your father.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“If only I knew sooner the kind of freedom truth can bring, I never would have kept it so long from the people I love most.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“It was hers to make, mine to support, and God's to control.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost

“I'd been terrified for them to see the world I really live in, one so unlike theirs. Yet when they had, they hadn't abandoned me to it... they joined me in it.”
― Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost