Jacqueline Sheehan > Quotes

“But in this life, he is dog. His life is ocean, stick, ball, sand, grass, ride in the truck, sleep by the bed, look deep into the eyes of humans, lure them outdoors, greet them with a burst of joy when they come home, love them. Fill this brief life with more. And more.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“There is no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Sometimes the surface is the safest place to be.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“After the first death there is no other.' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The first death changes everything, and all deaths afterward bring us back to the first death.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“I hate to disillusion you, but age doesn’t make you more brilliant. It’s being willing to step into the unknown that will keep you from premature aging.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This

“had told Rocky an odd version of this story; little truths had appeared, but the girl had deliberately left out the part that showed the true train wreck. She had deliberately orchestrated the tale for a purpose.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This

“and in the hierarchy of breakups he was going to take the high road—no phone breakup, but a face-to-face, which ranked much higher than a text message or e-mail.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This

“After the first death there is no other.’ Do”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“I’m one eighth Lakota, but I don’t think one eighth of anything counts for much. I’m half Irish, and then some Austrians got into the mix. Then there’s the English part. That’s where Hillary came from. I bet the Indians even watch the weather channel.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“But if you see something that no one else sees, I can only tell you this: Believe what you see. And if it is the unseen that speaks to you, believe that too.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This

“She wanted her 4:00 A.M. brain to experience the house, the time when thinking goes spiral and catastrophic before morning light restores reason.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This

“Unofficially the cops are saying it’s a suicide.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“old lovers? Why didn’t you tell me?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“She told him about tossing Bob’s ashes in the deep fryer at the local restaurant. She stopped and asked him if he had ever in all his years as a minister ever heard of anyone doing that”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Sit down and talk to the man, for God’s sake. You didn’t know that love was a high-risk business? It surely is. But not taking the risk is terrible,”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This

“While I may be guilty of many things, one of them is not that I would lie to you. I will tell you every awful truth,” he promised. “I will not lie to you, at least not about big things. If you ask about hairstyles, butt size, or shoes, then I might resort to creative answers.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This

“But in this life, he is dog. His life is ocean, stick, ball, sand, grass, ride in the truck, sleep by the bed, look deep into the eyes of humans, lure them outdoors, greet them with a burst of joy when they come home, love them. Fill this brief life with more. And more. A+ AUTHOR INSIGHTS, EXTRAS, & MORE… FROM”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Until she met Peter, she had her meds figured out and it was like she finally got it, how to manage meds with sleep and diet. She hadn’t had a manic episode for ages until he convinced her to go off her meds and let him take care of her. He was against all medication.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“There’s no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn’t it?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Rocky had refused to meet with her family over the holidays. “I just can’t. Not this year. I refuse to pretend that I am celebrating anything,” she told them.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“After the first death there is no other.’ Do you know who wrote that?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“She pulled into a fetal position, covered her head with the road atlas, and cried with a violence that shook the car.   Their”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“I’m amazed at the number of women who love demolition work.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This

“When the HMOs started haggling with her about how long to treat a person with depression or panic attacks that turned people into prisoners in their home, she knew that she would abandon her career if she had to keep dealing with insurance companies.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“She’s a dog warden now, recently vacated from her life as a psychologist. Some sort of career move.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Here the work had a beginning and an end, like house painting or carpentry, and if she didn’t want to talk to anyone, she didn’t have to.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“But here alone, not needing to take care of anyone else and not caring very much what happened because all the worst things had already happened, she stepped into the”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“During the winter people on the island either drink too much or read too much. Which are you?”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“The first death changes everything, and all deaths afterward bring us back to the first death.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Lost & Found

“Friends and family had sometimes made the erroneous assumption that because she was a therapist she would act like a therapist all the time and be thoughtful and introspective in every situation. “Do you think a podiatrist wants to examine feet at a party? Or that an accountant is just dying to balance your checkbook?” offered Rocky, time after time. When she was working as a therapist, she brought all of her skills to the task and served her clients in the best way she knew how. But when she was off duty, she felt free to be a fully flawed human.”
― Jacqueline Sheehan, Picture This