Kelley McNeil > Quotes

“We didn’t feel like strangers, but rather like we’d found someone who had been missing for a lifetime and then suddenly there they were. Puzzle pieces sliding into place, my nervous system both stirring and calming in the most remarkable way in his unusual presence.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“If it’s possible that tomorrow could be sad, then perhaps it’s equally possible that it could be joyful. Equally possible that something wonderful could happen. Something that surprises me. Something that reminds me that the universe hasn’t forgotten about me. Something that shows me that every day, there is . . . at least . . . the possibility that something miraculous, however large or small, will come from this single moment in time. Probability can be a little too hard to believe in sometimes. But possibility is enough.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“Sometimes you have to do that—take the thing about you that makes you the saddest and learn to spin it into a superpower.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“But that’s the funny thing about the universe—it has such wondrous possibilities for us, far beyond anything we could imagine for our own lives.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“What I believe is that people have an innate need to apply meaning to things that confuse them, and humans seem to have a natural fascination with the mysterious and spooky. It excites us. And we embrace it. But that doesn’t mean it’s real. And, more simply, memory is just—inaccurate. It changes every day.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Simply repeating one day after the next is the enemy of a fulfilling life. It’s the reason why months go by too quickly, or years, even, and it’s like there’s almost no memory of it—an overload of routine that the brain registers as unimportant. But a new experience is something special. A bookmark. A highlighted section in the pages of your life. It’s the reason why you can remember the exact way your shoes felt on your first day of first grade or the exact light of the room”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“I think I started writing songs about her before I ever knew she existed. Somehow, I knew she was out there. And it was as if the music led me to her. When I found her, it all came together.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“Some choices are easier than others. The key is to be at peace in the moment. To celebrate the here and now. No life is perfect, I’ve learned. But if you’re lucky, it can come pretty close.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Simply repeating one day after the next is the enemy of a fulfilling life.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“Music, words, and films. Put those three loves together, and that was pretty much me.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“Memory is ephemeral; it shifts.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“Some choices are easier than others. The key is to be at peace in the moment.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“But I like the idea of growing into an old, quiet man, secure in his solitary life, fading off into the sunset with someone to love,”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“There’s beauty in the ocean, but there’s magic in the forest.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“When you spend most of your life hearing that you don’t matter or that you’re a burden, it’s nearly impossible for your nervous system to accept anything but that message. Yet somehow, he began to heal those parts.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“Sometimes when I’m in large crowds now, I’ll look around at everyone’s faces and think that you never know what’s going on in someone’s world while they walk through life as if everything is normal.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“He felt familiar and new and like someone I’d known in every lifetime, if I believed in such things.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“of our existence, our own personal soundtrack behind our stories. Maybe it takes us to a memory, an echo of something that once was, or maybe to a place where we can live out an imagined dream. The great philosophers and astronomers believed that music could be felt from the stars and planets, traveling through space and time, and that there was magic in the design of the cosmos, connecting us in ways we can only begin to imagine. I wonder, after you hear our story, if you’ll believe it”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“He often said that time travel was more accessible to us than we realize, and that music is one of the ways we do it. He’s right, I think. After all, few things have the ability to transport us so completely and powerfully as the sound of the perfect, meaningful song.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“There is a certain stillness that happens in the aftermath of great loss”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“Each moment is like that. A sun. A star. A miraculous point from which unlimited bands of light shoot outward to places and paths much farther than we could ever see.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“My whole life is going to change because of this woman. Here we were, these two people who had been walking along in life, on two different continents, neither of us knowing the other existed and yet somehow knowing all along. In totally different worlds. And then in a moment, our paths cross and nothing is ever the same.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“The most pivotal days of a person’s life often start out just like any other. You wake up”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“Two points of light, finally meeting.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“We try so hard to be a good example for our kids. But maybe what they really need is to see us as human.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“He often said that time travel was more accessible to us than we realize, and that music is one of the ways we do it.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“The music of our lifetime is woven into the fabric of our existence, our own personal soundtrack behind our stories. Maybe it takes us to a memory, an echo of something that once was, or maybe to a place where we can live out an imagined dream.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“Every life has choices. Do we take the job or don’t we? Do we buy the house or not? Do we break off the engagement or go through with the wedding? Do we go through the yellow light or wait? Our path—the people we love, the life we lead—is forever altered by each decision large and small.”
― Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

“But a new experience is something special. A bookmark. A highlighted section in the pages of your life. It’s the reason why you can remember the exact way your shoes felt on your first day of first grade or the exact light of the room when you had your first kiss but can’t remember what you did last Tuesday.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna

“Because it was safe not to imagine something better—the best way to avoid disappointment.”
― Kelley McNeil, Mayluna