Jessica Strawser > Quotes

“But still, I think it's important for you to know that you can be happy on your own.”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“There was a fine line, it turned out, between being a dreamer and being a loner.”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“Time is the biggest, most elusive gift anyone can possess or give or share. Under the wrong circumstances, it can be mistaken for a curse.
Under the right ones, you can never have enough.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“by the very nature of most traps you can’t tell you’re in one until it’s too late. So you really shouldn’t point fingers from the outside the way you do.”
― Jessica Strawser, Not That I Could Tell

“The number one regret of patients who are . . . counting down . . . They wish they’d had the courage to live the life they’ve always felt they were meant to live. To live bigger, really go for it, you know?”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“Moms didn’t get much respect when they dedicated themselves full-time to doing it well, but if anything went wrong—even twenty-five, fifty years later—they were always the first ones blamed. Sometimes by the kids themselves.”
― Jessica Strawser, Not That I Could Tell

“It was never all that hard to rationalize your way through doing something wrong when it was a way to get what you wanted. She”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“We had a lot of Moments with a capital M. The kind that already feel like memories as they’re happening.
Only one of us would get to keep them for very long.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“She'd once read a description of new motherhood that had struck her, at the time that she was returning to work after maxing out her maternity leave allowance, as a beautiful metaphor for her own days back at the office. It was that mother and baby are like a ball of yarn, and when the mother leaves the baby's side, it's as if the baby grabs hold of the loose end, a tug that both mother and baby feel in their every fiber. As they both move through the hours spent apart, the string unravels more and more, and then just when each is starting to feel diminished, barely even a ball of yarn at all anymore, it's time for the mother to make her way back. Together again, they need only a bit of time to wind the string back up, and then it's as if they had never been apart, right up until they wake up and do it all over again.”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“Everyone here is so at one with the mountains, you know?”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“There’s nothing more we can do, doctors always tell the most dire patients.
But there was so much more I could do.
So much I hadn’t done.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“One way or another, when this is over, things between us will never be the same.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“That first night, as they admired how wide the sky stretched above and beyond them, how bright the stars were here, how they could actually see the haze of the Milky Way cut its swath across the sky, Finn lowered his eyes to hers, and she saw something there that she only then realized she hadn't seen from him before: hope. "Maybe nothing has to be as complicated as we make it," he said. "Maybe life really is this simple.”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“It was just that it was so hard to turn away from the kind of love that is so eager to find you.”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“She’d learned that there were more important things than a job, but that if you were lucky enough to have a career that brought you purpose and fulfillment, it could become a part of your identity that could be hard to shake.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“All the best new seasons started this way, didn’t they? With a messy, muddy cleanse, stretches of dreariness, all that fallen dead brush to clear. And then one day the whole world was transformed, full of color and sun. New life budding even now, in the rain. Because of the rain.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Last Caretaker

“numbness is not the absence of feeling. Rather, it’s often overload, too many emotions coming at you at once.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“Gigi flashed the universal grin used by sisters everywhere to signify, I can be a magnificent bitch too.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Last Caretaker

“Yes, the decisions would be hard. But maybe this was a good problem to have after all.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Never drink to feel better—only drink to feel even better.”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“studio”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“He had given her so much just by choosing her as his wife that she’d been hesitant to ask for anything.”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“It’s a desolate feeling, to want nothing more than to stay somewhere, but not be able to think of a single somewhere you’d like to be.”
― Jessica Strawser, A Million Reasons Why

“Numbness is not the absence of feeling. Rather, it's often overload, too many emotions coming at you at once.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“to hear. And sometimes important messages could hide in benign places. Like in a children’s poem.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“Sometimes when it was just the four of them, warm and safe, she’d get this overwhelming urge to lock the doors and keep them here, where everyone was accounted for and together. She knew this time with the kids was limited, that one day not many years from now they’d spend more of their hours away from her than with her, and think of her less and less when they were apart.”
― Jessica Strawser, Not That I Could Tell

“with”
― Jessica Strawser, Catch You Later

“What was your last serious relationship?” Enzo wanted to know. He’d taken her to a historic lounge called the Game Room”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club

“It was there when people tried to dismiss women as catty, to pit the strongest of them against each other, to leave room only for one token female seat in a boardroom full of suits.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Last Caretaker

“Every day, I wake up, turn my face to the sun, and wonder if I’m obsolete yet. This is not the kind of life-on-the-brink anyone sets out for.’ Some”
― Jessica Strawser, The Quitters Club