Katy Colins > Quotes

“Only other backpackers will understand what it's like to leave home to follow your dreams. Those pals back home will nod along, listening to your travel tales, but for them it's just words and pretty pictures. For you, everything has changed and you look around feeling like an alien in the most foreign place you have visited: home. That's why it's called a travel bug - you literally get bitten with this desire to keep moving and keep exploring, as the life you had back home isn't enough any more and may not ever be enough again.”
― Katy Colins, Destination Thailand

“I am the person I am today because of what happened. If I deny what happened then I deny who I am.”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“If I could do it all over again then I would do it so very differently. Obviously, I hope that we would all be friends, but I would be a different, braver version of myself.”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“would honour this wonderful woman. ‘All we have, at the end of the day, is the legacies that we leave behind,”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“Hiraeth (n.) Homesickness for a home you can’t return to, or that never was”
― Katy Colins, Destination Thailand

“By living, having fun, smiling and moving forwards, we are proof that we can bear the scars we have been given and refuse to allow our pain to sink us.”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“it was still a life filled with things I didn’t do, instead of things I did.”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“Allow yourself to sit in the darkness, embracing how broken you feel. Stop saying I’m fine if you’re not. Open up to others who understand.”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“I did love a good list. There was something about the control you get from emptying your head by simply jotting your thoughts down, then the satisfaction when slicing through them with s big fat tick once completed.”
― Katy Colins, Destination Thailand

“I do feel awfully saddened by the chances that I did have, but threw away.”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“There is no such thing as the perfect goodbye; the perfect goodbye is not having to say goodbye in the first place.”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“the perfect goodbye means nothing if we don’t get to tell the person what they mean to us while they’re still alive.”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“Death did that. You learnt to figure out a new normal. You were never able to fill the void left behind, but you could at least begin to patch up some of the empty edges. You would grieve for as long as you breathed, it just wouldn’t be as all-consuming”
― Katy Colins, How to Say Goodbye

“This pain, this determination and frustration was for all the failure I’d willingly endured in my life, knowing”
― Katy Colins, Destination Thailand