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

“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?

“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

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

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

“All because each one of us had, really, just been seeking someone to love, and someone to love us back. The problem was, we’d overcomplicated it all by adding layers of conditions and exclusions and rules. We’d all lived such intertwined lives that we knew the best of each other and the worst of each other, so there were no fresh starts, no hiding of flaws or failures. Just four open wounds looking for someone to heal us.”
― Shari Low, The Story of Our Secrets

“Usually,”
― Shari Low, One Moment in Time

“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?

“keeping”
― Shari Low, One Year After You

“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?

“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

“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

“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

“After her mum had died, there had been times when Tress thought she’d never have that feeling of belonging again.”
― Shari Low, One Day with You

“Mona wasn’t sure if she was more insulted by the betrayal or by the fact that the woman he was screwing behind her back bought her shoes from Clarks.”
― Shari Low, The Other Wives Club

“on,”
― Shari Low, One Year After You

“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?

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

“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

“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