One Day with You Quotes

“Now, and please take this in the spirit it was intended, just fuck yourself right off.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“think that they’re saying that life is short and it can change in a heartbeat. I think they’re saying that you never know the minute your whole world can be blown to smithereens. And I think they’re saying that’s why you have to grab every chance of happiness that you can find because you don’t know when or if the next one will come along.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“Noah could feel himself start to crumble again and he understood now what some of the parents of the children he treated would tell him. They often said that when they were being strong and holding it together for their kids, the thing that was the hardest to bear was sympathy. He’d watched mothers, fathers and grandparents sit stoically by their child through endless hours of chemo, through surgeries and tragic diagnoses, and he’d seen them laugh and joke and be strong for that child. But the minute their child wasn’t there, and someone put their arms around them, the dams would open and they’d sob until there were no more tears.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“If anything, Nancy had real sympathy for the teenagers today. Aye, they had all the expensive bags and make-up that cost the same as a pair of shoes, but they didn’t have the privacy to make their mistakes in their own time.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“you never know the minute your whole world can be blown to smithereens. And I think they’re saying that’s why you have to grab every chance of happiness that you can find because you don’t know when or if the next one will come along.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“After her mum had died, there had been times when Tress thought she’d never have that feeling of belonging again.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“In the five years they’d been occasional sex-buddies, they’d never discussed calling it off. Not even when he met Tress.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“Thing is, I didn’t love Don because we were married. Or because we had a family. Or even because I was scared of being alone or missing the boat. I loved him, and still love him now, because he’s my person. And if I lost him tomorrow, I’d be heartbroken, but every day I’d know that I’ve had that love in my life, and I’d be grateful for it, whether it lasted for a year, or ten, or fifty.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“read somewhere that forgiveness wasn’t something you did for other people, it was something you did for yourself to let you move”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“Nancy let her speak, didn’t try to cajole her or to tell her it was going to be okay. She’d learned that when Peter was ill. People thought they were doing her a kindness when they said things like, ‘Ah, he’ll be fine – they can work miracles these days,’ or ‘If there’s anyone who can beat this, it’s Pete.’ She wanted to tell them that didn’t help, but she always bit her tongue because they meant well. In reality, all it did was dismiss and brush off what Peter was feeling, what she was dealing with, the tornado the illness had swept through their happy lives.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“Val”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“People change, sometimes for the better.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“...grab everything chance of happiness that you can find because you don't know when or if the next one will come along.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“We deal with the hard stuff that's in front of us, but we need to make the best of it.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“think”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“It was an unusual family, but it was the one that they’d picked for themselves. And not one of them would have it any other way.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“How about some tea and toast?’ It was the simplest thing, the very basic of care. Food. Drink. Yet to Tress it was so much more than that. It was someone else caring for her at the end of a day that had come close to breaking her.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“She’d read somewhere that forgiveness wasn’t something you did for other people, it was something you did for yourself to let you move on.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“I don’t forgive you. I never will. There’s no peace because you took that away. And that’s on you.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“I don’t know how this is going to end, but if it’s not good, then I need you to know that I love you still. Because to lose that would make me look back and regret so much and I don’t want to do that.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“We deal with the hard stuff that’s in front of us, but we need to make the best of it. And if that means doing something wild and sheer bloody crazy sometimes, then good for us.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“So it was going to be today. Today was the day that he was going to find out what was really going on with his wife.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“Val had never treated her that way. She just made her tea and gave her time and friendship while she listened to her vent, or rage, or laugh, or cry, or just talk.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“and please take this in the spirit it was intended, just fuck yourself right off.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“along,”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“last night had reminded her what it felt like to live again, to go out there and be bold and take a chance.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“forgiveness wasn’t something you did for other people, it was something you did for yourself to let you move on.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“When she was done, she caught herself in the mirror. There she was. Sixty-six years old. A lifetime there, looking back at her.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“better to have an incredible love that was gone, than to have a mediocre one that lasted a lifetime.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“no matter how free you felt when you were falling, the landing could still end everything.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You