Paige Harbison > Quotes

“I fell asleep, slipping into the kind of dreams that aren’t dreams at all -- just memories with all the details you never thought you’d remember and couldn’t believe you’d forgotten.”
― Paige Harbison, Here Lies Bridget

“There was no up, there was no down. There was a steady, nauseated life five minutes ago, but nothing five minutes from now. And then, very suddenly, there was no 'now.”
― Paige Harbison, New Girl

“I want you to understand how people see you, and how your actions matter...You must learn that your place in the world is important. You've been given the power to affect people, just as we all have, and it's important -- no, vital -- that you do the right thing with it.”
― Paige Harbison, Here Lies Bridget

“When he imagines you, he should think of every sensation of you before he remembers how you look. How you sound when you laugh at a joke he makes, how your soft sun-kissed shoulder feels in his calloused hand, how your lips taste like sugar and how when you get just close enough to him, he can catch a slight breeze of you and he'll always remember that you smell like flowers and sunshine.”
― Paige Harbison, Anything to Have You

“It was really hard to stay positive. And that's normally a talent of mine.”
― Paige Harbison, New Girl

“The truth is, we live. We can't spend every moment treasuring the things we love. We still get mad at the dog for tracking mud through the house, even though one day we would give anything to have her muddy paws back on our white carpet. We still roll our eyes at our parents' needy voicemails, even though one day those recorded moments will be all we have left.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I was so incredibly nostalgic for a life I knew I'd never, ever have again.”
― Paige Harbison, New Girl

“You realize that everything you think and feel now will be encompassed in the hyphen between two years.”
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“I felt determined and strong, but sick and weak all at once.”
― Paige Harbison, New Girl

“I know that no matter how much someone loves you and you love them, there's no guarantee that they will always be there.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I’m afraid that something will loosen in my psyche and I will simply cease to have power over myself.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“You’re not on the outside of your life looking in. Everyone isn’t off having some perfect moment and you’re left out of it. You’re alive right now. Whether your real life is back in California, or it’s here, or if it’s on Pluto, it doesn’t matter. You’re here right now. I wish you didn’t feel like things were such high stakes. You can be happy, you know.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“When you're a celebrity, people rarely want to tell you "no". How do you think Michael Jackson went as far as he did with plastic surgery? How did Kim Kardashian get away with wearing that Marilyn Monroe dress? Who lets Johnny Depp out of the house looking like he does? Or honestly, who lets him out of the house period? He used to be so hot.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I’m not here waiting for life. I’m in it. It’s happening now! Look out!”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“I have this sense of certainty that I had finally touched the bottom of the emotion. I now know the depth of my pain and, finally, I can begin swimming toward the surface. I never need to go that far again.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“The answer to how is unsatisfying. The truth is … we live. We can’t spend every moment treasuring the things we love. We still get mad at the dog for tracking mud through the house even though one day, we would give anything to have her muddy paws back on our white carpet. We still roll our eyes at our parents’ needy voicemails even though one day, those recorded moments will be all we have left.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now

“Sex right up until the orthopedic shoes, huh? Then no more.” “No more. I’ll be tired then.”
― Paige Harbison, The Other Side of Now