Jessica Strawser > Quotes

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“One way or another, when this is over, things between us will never be the same.”
― 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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“with”
― Jessica Strawser, Catch You Later

“You might call my freest moments reckless, and you might be right. All I know is, those moments where my heart or my body or my sanity was on the line?
Those were the moments I felt most alive.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“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

“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

“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

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

“Not everyone who finds out what they’re made of likes what they see. Of course, once you’ve gone there, it’s too late. You can’t ever forget it.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Becoming a mother had been many things--often indescribably rewarding, occasionally stupefying, sometimes even terrifying in the intensity of the love she felt for someone so small and vulnerable and dependent upon her--but relaxing was not one of them.”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

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

“Violet’s last visit—not two months ago, at the beginning of the summer—Violet seemed …”
― Jessica Strawser, Almost Missed You

“when someone’s feedback made you this uncomfortable, it might mean they were right.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Last Caretaker

“If he’d met Nova years ago, he’d have written a song for her.
A song like that, he couldn’t write for someone else to play. He had to play it himself.
No point in writing it then. No matter how much he itched to.”
― Jessica Strawser, The Next Thing You Know

“This was the real reason she was stuck. She always got in her own way.”
― Jessica Strawser, Catch You Later