Halfway to You Quotes

“Another person’s broken wrist doesn’t mean yours is any less sprained.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“having a feeling about something is not stupid. In fact, I think it’s the closest we get to divine intervention”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“Life isn’t made up of starts and ends—it’s a series of and thens”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“I was no longer waiting for him, but savoring him.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“my heart still trilled like a songbird in his presence; and how his gaze remained ever trained on me, as if I was the only person in the world who mattered.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“We cherished each other, because suddenly we realized we weren’t the immortal youngsters we once were. I feel lucky for the time we spent together, and also like I earned it, if that makes sense. But I still wish we’d forgiven each other sooner.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“He loved me for the woman I was in Washington—the woman who no longer smoked, who instead had a garden, walked on the beach, read by the fire. The woman who had lived a whole life before him yet was happy having his companionship now.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“when I lost Todd, I lost some of my dignity too. I thought recklessness was the path to forgetting.)”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“was running from who I thought I would become.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“feeling about something is not stupid. In fact, I think it’s the closest we get to divine intervention. I think we’re born with an innate ability to feel, and from childhood we’re trained not to listen, because it’s illogical. But I’ll tell you right now: all the most important decisions I’ve made in my life have been based on illogical feelings that I just couldn’t ignore.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“Tucked within life’s greatest letdowns are the gold nuggets of love, laughter, and family. May you find all three more often than you lose them.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“an opportunity is not something you receive; it’s something you seize.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“And the water—it was otherworldly. A hue of teal so postcard perfect, I was disbelieving. But it was not the only shade of blue. When the sky was overcast or the sun had not yet punctured the surface of the morning, we saw lavender gray and cornflower ripple across the ocean’s calm surface. Under the high sun, we boarded fishing boats and walked beaches, witnessing coastal cerulean, jungle azure, deep pools of peacock and sapphire. We swam in turquoise, indigo, aquamarine.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“opportunity is not something you receive; it’s something you seize.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“The problem with expecting people to hurt you is that you’re constantly looking for a reason to be proven right, and you forget all the instances you’re proven wrong.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“Regret is poison to the soul at my age.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“When I sat across from Todd, he gave me all his attention. He didn’t make me feel like the only person in the world—rather, he made me feel like the only person in the world worth listening to.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“when it came to Todd, I never learned. I could never quite reach him. I was always halfway there, trying desperately to close the distance.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“Waiting in some foreign land and hoping beyond hope that he’d prove me wrong and show up, after all.”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You

“I also knew that I loved him—a deep certainty that rippled through my heart like the tide. Todd had always been the ocean to my beach, warm and smooth and lovely even as he swept through my everything. He could wipe me clean with perfect devastation. And I was the sand, the sum of a million fragmented,”
― Jennifer Gold, Halfway to You