Rowan Coleman > Quotes

“Do not miss me, because I will always be with you. In every drop of rain that touches your tongue, in every breath of air you inhale. In the tips of the leaves that you brush with your fingertips as you pass by. I will be there, in every moment. I am not gone, I am only altered, from this state of matter to another. For a moment, for too brief a moment, I was the man that loved you, but now that I am changed, I am the air, the moon, the stars. For we are all made of stars, my beloved.

You and I, and all of life, we were all born out of the death of a star, millions of billions of years ago. A star that lived long and then, before its death, burned at its brightest, its fiercest - an enflaming supernova. But when it died, it did not cease to exist; instead everything it was made of became part of the universe once again, and everything that is part of the universe will once more become part of us.

So do not miss me, because I do not die; I transform - into the wind in the tops of the trees, the wave on the ocean, the pebbles under your foot, the dust on your bookshelves, the midnight sky.

Wherever you look, I will be there.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“And that's what it's about, isn't it? Love? Love's about making it last, making it stick, making it count - even when it hurts, when times are hard, when people change, when life changes them. If you love someone, then you have to want to love them, whoever they are.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“Being a mother is about protecting your children from every conceivable thing that might cause them hurt, but it's also about trusting them to live the best way for them, the best way they can; and trusting that even when you are not there to hold their hand, they can succeed.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Vote. Even if they are all hopelessly inadequate, pick the least terrible one and vote. My mother fought hard to get you that vote.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“Love is a funny thing," he says, breaking the silence.
"Sometimes, I'd like to be better with words, so that I could talk about it more. It seems so wrong to me that there is this condition that affects all of us, more than anything else in our lives ever will, and only the poets and song writers get to talk about it with any sort of authority.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Books are a bit like time travel, aren't they? They can pick you up out of your life and put you in someone else's? It's just a shame that at some point you always have to come back.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“Push yourself out of your comfort zone and see what you are really capable of.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“The feeling of how much I loved you almost drowned me - it was like I couldn't catch my breath.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“looking at my reflection, in the window opposite, hollow and translucent, I see a woman disappearing. It would help if I looked like that in real life – if the more the disease advanced, the more ‘see-through’ I became until, eventually, I would be just a wisp of a ghost. How much more convenient it would be, how much easier for everyone, including me, if my body just melted away along with my mind. Then we’d all know where we were, literally and metaphysically.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“I think men that read books are the most attractive kind.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Summer of Impossible Things

“If you are late, you are wasting precious moments of another person's life. Moments they can never get back!”
― Rowan Coleman, Lessons in Laughing Out Loud

“You see, our physical bodies, they break down, eventually returning to dust, but energy, energy is never destroyed. And what is love, if it isn’t the most powerful energy we know of?”
― Rowan Coleman, The Summer of Impossible Things

“I think it’s love that lasts. It’s love that remembers us. It’s love that is left, when we are gone. I think those feelings are more real than our bodies and all the things that can go wrong with them.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Because I wondered what it's like to be in love,' she said. 'I thought you might have been. I read about it in books, of course, but I just wonder what it's like.'
'Like butterflies and rainbows, I think,' I say. 'And feeling crazy and exhilarated and high, and sometimes terrible and sad.But mostly feeling like you and the person you love are part of your own little universe that just the two of you have made, and everyone else doesn't really matter. I think it's probably like that.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“Jill would kill me if she thought anyone fancied me," he said with charming anxiety.
"No, she wouldn't", Natalie reassured him. "We like our men to be fancied. What we do not like is for them to fancy others. That is when you risk wandering into the realm of sudden and violent death.”
― Rowan Coleman, Mommy by Mistake

“Stories are the only things that can ever really change the world.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Summer of Impossible Things

“That's the way I want you to live your life, Caitlin. The way you want to, not the way that circumstances dictate.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Don't kiss me", he said, looking into Natalie's eyes. There was a second's silence. "Let me kiss you. I'm old-fashioned that way.”
― Rowan Coleman, Mommy by Mistake

“It's about the feeling you get: the road beneath the soles of your feet, the smell in the air. It makes you feel strong, somehow, invincible.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“Falling in love doesn't wait to happen at mutually convenient times.”
― Rowan Coleman

“Maybe knowing what it is that you want, the future that you have been fighting for, is what it will take to make it happen. It's easy to admit defeat and let go of people you love, or dreams you have, because it's difficult. Fighting for them is what takes courage. Fighting for them is what matters.”
― Rowan Coleman, We are All Made of Stars

“There, I've said it, and I said it in front of all these strange and quite scary women and that guy, because I'm less frightened of them than I am of being alone with you and you turning me down.”
― Rowan Coleman, Mommy by Mistake

“I didn't see then what I see now, that the things that make us unremarkable are also the very things we'll fight to death to protect. Unremarkable things turn us into heroes.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Summer of Impossible Things

“Mi queridísima Leigh, al margen de lo que pase, recuerda siempre, siempre, que todos los días hay que hacerle saber a persona que amas lo mucho que la quieres, y todo irá bien.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“Never regret love,” she says. “That’s my motto. I don’t ever regret having loved someone too much, only not loving someone enough.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“It seems to me that you can't decide to like a person based on their personal circumstances. It seems to me that sometimes you can like a person because of who they are, despite their personal circumstances.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Day We Met

“Be kind to people, just be kind. You never know what other people are going through, so whenever you can, however you can, be kind. Be true to yourself. When I say that, I mean just live life the best way that you can, honestly, decently. You won’t be perfect. You’ll make mistakes, maybe hurt people, and people will hurt you. But that’s okay as long as you can know that everything you did, you did with the right intentions.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“I don’t know how to answer, or to explain how I feel or what I see, so I don’t, only that I feel sure somehow that once that essence of life leaves a person, it changes what’s left behind so completely that it must be some kind of entity, some kind of force that goes somewhere, even if it’s just out among the stars.”
― Rowan Coleman, We Are All Made of Stars

“....at the brink of the end, have I really known what it means to be alive, to dance, to love, to fear and to want. But that's just what I want, not what I must do . . . And somehow, want it is enough. It's almost enough; wanting life so badly means that I have lived it, at least.”
― Rowan Coleman, The Summer of Impossible Things