Merry Ex-Mas Quotes

“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. Time gives you distance and perspective. The time we had wasn’t enough, but it wasn’t nothing. I lived twenty-two amazing years as their son. And that was a gift.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“When you’re young and full of invulnerable optimism, dreams are as easy as “Oh, I’ll just try that.” Everything seems attainable”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“I turn toward him. “Max, what is it that you want?” “You.” He holds my gaze for a heated moment.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“My reasons for leaving haven’t changed. It was never about a lack of feelings for her—quite the opposite. The fact was, I loved Marin too much. And I’m afraid that hasn’t changed.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“Look, everyone’s got history. Everyone has baggage. If you’re lucky enough to find someone willing to lug it around for you, you should let them. It doesn’t have to be ‘til death do you part. Just go have some fun!”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“Between the two of us—I was the one who was proving to be untrustworthy. And he was proving to be exactly what I told myself he wasn’t—the man I’d always loved.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“It’s hard when the one place on the planet with the most pain is the same place that feels the most like home.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“Look, everyone’s got history. Everyone has baggage. If you’re lucky enough to find someone willing to lug it around for you, you should let them.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“You can’t force someone to deal with their grief the way you want them to, Marin,” Mom says.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“The melodramatic apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“Memories, certain ones, have a way of zipping together the past and the present. What was once completely separate is now entangled. What you felt then, you feel now, and you’re unable to pull them apart.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“And then the world goes into slow motion. Rudolph’s backside begins to wag, and before I know what’s happening, I see that the mishandled balloon is coming for us. More specifically, I see that we’re about to be devoured by two giant reindeer butt cheeks. “Rudolph’s butt is going to eat Santa!” A little kid calls out as we are sucked into the black hole of an upside-down reindeer rear end. My last thought before my world goes dark is this is going to go viral.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“Her voice trails off, and she’s holding the medal like she opened a present on Christmas morning and it turned out to be an avocado.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“I had a therapist tell me once that pain you don’t deal with always finds a way to come back. It will demand attention.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“She left me a note telling me where to meet her for the parade this afternoon. It was written in green ink on red paper that smelled like cinnamon.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“I tilt my head slightly in “only my mom” realization because she’s wearing a reindeer headband. A jingly, Christmas reindeer headband. I’ll even bet it. . . My mom reaches up and presses an unseen button. “It lights up! Isn’t it adorable?”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“You know that unkindness just makes you get old before your time.” “That’s true,” Dad calls from the living room. “Rots your bones and makes you constipated! Look at your Aunt June!”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas

“To search her eyes for happiness and contentment—two things I want for her more than anything else.”
― Courtney Walsh, Merry Ex-Mas