Alison Hammer > Quotes

“It's easy to pretend that nothing's wrong when everything is normal like this... I mean, it's not like I ever forget. It's always lingering in the back of my mind; I just try to keep it as far back as I can. Because thinking about it, it's just too much.”
― Alison Hammer, You and Me and Us

“I cycle through the list of things that should make me smile, just thinking about them. If I can fill my head with enough happy thoughts, maybe the sad ones will go away.”
― Alison Hammer, You and Me and Us

“You don't have to live without you.”
― Alison Hammer, You and Me and Us

“The only blank pages in your life story are the ones yet to be written." ~Helen, chptr 44”
― Alison Hammer, Little Pieces of Me

“I feel like I don't want to take a single second for granted, I want to make the most of the time I have left.

...It's like I want to live as many moments as I can, like I'm filling my heart and my mind with all the memories I can get, so I can take them with me.”
― Alison Hammer, You and Me and Us

“I don't bother answering - she always says the most obvious things that don't need to be said. It's like she's just talking to fill space. Dad's more like me; he knows that sometimes there's no need to ruin the quiet with words.”
― Alison Hammer, You and Me and Us

“understanding”
― Alison Hammer, You and Me and Us

“She loved everything about books—the heavy feel of them in her hands, the musty smell of the paper, and the whispery sound of the pages as she turned them. But most of all, she loved the way books could transport her to another time and place.”
― Alison Hammer, Little Pieces of Me

“She can't help. No one can. I rest my head in my hands and let the flood of hot angry tears fall. I can't even begin to wrap my head around the enormity of it all. She lied to me, probably lied to my dad too.
The hole in my heart doubles in size like I'm losing him all over again.....Although it seems he was never mine to lose.”
― Alison Hammer, Little Pieces of Me

“I used to think you didn't want to marry me so it would be easier to leave if you needed to run.”
― Alison Hammer, You and Me and Us

“Life is too damn short to stay mad at the people you love.”
― Alison Hammer, You and Me and Us

“All those years ago, you told me to stay, to stop running away. You said life is going to be tough no matter where I went, and that some things were worth sticking around for. And that's you, You're worth sticking around for, and I want to spend the rest of the time we have together as your wife.”
― Alison Hammer, You and Me and Us