Shari Low > Quotes

“you can never have too many people to love, or too many people loving you back.”
― Shari Low, This Is Me

“never say no to him, so she’d open the door. It was great fun.”
― Shari Low, One Christmas Eve

“The irony was that she wanted to be alone, yet the loneliness was consuming her.”
― Shari Low, The Last Day of Winter

“That was the problem with young people these days. They gave up too soon on marriage. They fell at the first hurdle, as soon as something went wrong, the minute they felt slighted or disrespected. Didn’t they realise that people had to grow? Had to change? Had to find their way in a partnership.”
― Shari Low, This Is Me

“Because sometimes we think we want something, and we’re so focused on making that happen that we lose sight of what’s best for us.”
― Shari Low, One Last Day of Summer

“I was a woman who firmly believed in lifting other women up, but the only way I could possibly bring myself to raise Estelle would be if she sat on the opposite end of a seesaw, in which case I pretty much hoped that our weight difference would come in handy and I’d catapult her into space.”
― Shari Low, What Next?

“boat. I loved him, and still love him now, because he’s my person. And if I lost him tomorrow, I’d be heartbroken, but every day I’d know that I’ve had that love in my life, and I’d be grateful for it, whether it lasted for a year, or ten, or fifty.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“Maybe I want to live my life having known two kinds of love. The kind that takes away and the kind that gives.”
― Shari Low, One Last Day of Summer

“And all that bollocks about things getting easier with time is something that people say to give you false hope. I really wish someone had just said, look, love, this will suck for ever. There’s no escaping it. At least then I wouldn’t feel so pathetic for still feeling this way.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“I loved him, and still love him now, because he’s my person. And if I lost him tomorrow, I’d be heartbroken, but every day I’d know that I’ve had that love in my life, and I’d be grateful for it, whether it lasted for a year, or ten, or fifty.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“But it was how I handled things best, by myself, toughing it out, a façade of confidence and calm forcing me to hold it together. At the first sign of sympathy or someone else’s pain, I knew I’d crumble.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Life

“Because life’s too short to live”
― Shari Low, One Christmas Eve

“«Allora facciamo così. Qualcosa mi dice che non mi darai problemi. Tre delle nostre cameriere non si sono presentate stasera. Se puoi iniziare subito, ti prendo in prova. Ti pagherò in contanti, così il permesso di lavoro non sarà un problema».”
― Shari Low, What If?

“More than that, m’darlin’, you deserve to laugh that gorgeous laugh of yours, to find true happiness and to have someone to love you until the end of time.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“think”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“My mother harrumphed, which was something that I didn’t think people actually did outside bad sitcoms.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“Because of you all, I know what love is. I know how to give it and I know that I’m loved. And really, that’s all that we want in life. Love. Compassion. Forgiveness. Acceptance. Laughter. To have people who care if you’re happy, who will celebrate with you, and who’ll stand beside you in your worst moments. I have that. So no, I’d change nothing. No matter what happens, I’ve lived my best life.”
― Shari Low, What Now?

“There were some battles in life that just weren’t worth fighting.”
― Shari Low, This Is Me

“Now, instead of thinking Lovely to meet you, I was thinking Flowers in the Attic. Do not say that out loud. Do not.”
― Shari Low, Friday Night with the Girls

“But you’re going to have to find a way to live without your entire happiness depending on your kids. You need your own life and your own joy too.”
― Shari Low, This Is Me

“This was the tiny sliver of joy that had replaced the days when she had friends. And a hectic schedule. And places to go, obligations to meet, a son to take care of. Her life had been full and chaotic and some parts of it had been wonderful, but not now. Now, all she had was the sun on her face in the morning. And today, like yesterday and tomorrow, it would have to be enough. For now.”
― Shari Low, One Long Weekend

“keeping”
― Shari Low, One Year After You

“Bugger. Was there a Taylor Swift song that covered this level of romantic complexity? If so, we could really do with her words of wisdom.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“How could two people who must have loved each other enough to take their vows end up like this?”
― Shari Low, What If?

“La mia unica consolazione in questa triste esistenza rimane il mio fidato gruppo di amiche, le quali non desiderano altro che passare una serata fuori con nachos, vino da quattro soldi e pettegolezzi osceni, sempre se riescono a liberarsi dai rispettivi figli/lavori/mariti/fidanzati.”
― Shari Low, What If?

“Not to sound corny, or maudlin, but none of us know what’s in front of us, or how long we’ve got, and there’s so much I haven’t done, haven’t felt.”
― Shari Low, One Moment in Time

“This wasn’t about her and there was no point pushing because, as she’d seen time and time again, people had to process things at their own speed and make their own decisions.”
― Shari Low, One Last Day of Summer

“That’s what the bucket list was about. It wasn’t about doing things before we died. It was about doing them while we still felt alive.”
― Shari Low, What Next?

“on,”
― Shari Low, One Year After You

“Dopo aver disfatto la borsa, mi gettai sul letto, ignorando la nuvola di polvere che si alzò attorno a me. Continuai a pensare che avrei dovuto essere terrorizzata, ma non lo ero. Sorridevo come lo Stregatto e mi sentivo… be’, euforica.”
― Shari Low, What If?