Caron McKinlay > Quotes

“Are we ghosts of our past failures wandering around unable to let go of what we thought we’d found?”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“I’m done with taking fragments of emotion from men and searching for their meanings. It isn’t enough. If someone loves you, it’s their role to show”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“He has the twinkle of the night stars in his eyes”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“The next day dawns like nothing momentous has happened. From my window, the birds still shriek and the dustbins on the street still clatter. How can that be? We should have all stopped with him, ceased to exist. It’s wrong, disrespectful. Who will fill his space?”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“You don’t die because you didn’t try hard enough to stay alive.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“I hate how everyone comments on how beautiful you were as if that’s all that defined you. You were a thousand tiny little things.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“The world can be a harsh place. Lots of things that happen in life can knock you down and take your breath away. You need someone beside you that can bring light. Not just on the days when everything is good, but when that darkness comes too.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“All the tiny inconsequential scraps of everyday life we’d have shared.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“Love is a choice, wee Nikki. Remember people must bring you sunshine or you make it for yourself.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“I’m done with taking fragments of emotion from men and searching for their meanings. It isn’t enough. If someone loves you, it’s their role to show you.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“It just depends on whether he brings sunlight that makes you shine in his company or darkness that makes you vanish. If there’s more darkness than light, then you must choose not to love and walk away. Never let anyone fade your light.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“Love is like these waves lapping the shore. It rises and falls between euphoria and pain. No matter our age, our life is shared with those moments of ebb and flow.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“All those wasted years of yearning and being rejected, of seeking out that one man who would create joy.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers

“most of all you were my home.”
― Caron McKinlay, The Storytellers