Dani Atkins > Quotes

“I wondered if Alice had felt this confused when she had fallen down the well into Wonderland”
― Dani Atkins

“You say goodbye to the people you love thousands of times in a lifetime: every time they walk out of the front door; every time you hang up the phone; every waved farewell. You just never know which of those goodbyes is going to be the last one.”
― Dani Atkins, Our Song

“There's no pain in packing up a life you don't remember.”
― Dani Atkins

“There was nothing to fear from a ghost when they were someone you loved.”
― Dani Atkins, Fractured

“That's the trouble with bodies ... they have an annoying little habit of giving away far too many secrets.”
― Dani Atkins, Perfect Strangers

“that I wasn’t going crazy. For a long time I thought that this story should begin with what happened to me at the church, when my life”
― Dani Atkins, Fractured

“I did as he asked, telling stories that all began with the words 'remember when...' they made us smile, they made us cry - but that was okay too, because we were doing it together, And 'together' was a luxury we wouldn't have for much longer.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Ik begon te beseffen dat ik in een nachtmerrie zat toen het tot me doordrong dat ik niet wakker werd: dat alles echt gebeurde, hoe onmogelijk en ongelooflijk dat ook mocht zijn.”
― Dani Atkins, Fractured

“The second surprise was the discovery that even though they might be a little bit on the bendy side, eating stale five-years-out-of-date biscuits is not going to kill you”
― Dani Atkins, This Love

“If something is meant to be yours, it will find its way to you,”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“fact. For the first”
― Dani Atkins, Fractured

“Pobjegao mi je jecaj toliko sirov od žalosti da je od muke više zvučao kao životinjski nego ljudski. Osjetila sam kako mi koljena klecaju i klonula na hladnu travu pokraj groba. Došla sam ovamo nadajući se da ću izgovoriti sve što osjećam, ali nijedan osjećaj nije izlazio na površinu od vrelog naleta boli koji me je pomeo s nogu. Vjerovala sam da sam tijekom godina došla do toga da sam se pomirila s tim, ali sad sam shvatila da sam samo navukla tanki oblog prevare preko otvorene rane. Nisam mogla pronaći riječi, samo sam se polako njihala naprijed-nazad na koljenima ponavljajući mu ime iznova i iznova.”
― Dani Atkins, Fractured

“You say goodbye to the people you love thousands of times in a lifetime: every time they walk out of the front door; every time you hang up the phone; every waved farewell. You just never know which of those goodbyes is going to be the last one. You aren’t supposed to know.”
― Dani Atkins, Our Song

“It was hard to say what had been worse: waking for months in the middle of the night to find my hand searching for Adam across the cold sheets, or the day when my subconscious finally acknowledged he was never going to be found there.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Sarah's friendship was one of my most treasured possessions.”
― Dani Atkins, Fractured

“The grief was so deeply etched into her face that I realised no new emotion was ever going to be powerful enough to erase it.”
― Dani Atkins, Fractured

“We'd met in flames on a night long ago, and with the sound of the sea as our soundtrack, we rode together through a completely different type of inferno.”
― Dani Atkins, This Love

“You say goodbye to the people you love thousands of times in a lifetime: every time they walk out the front door; every time you hang up the phone; every farewell. You just never know which of those goodbyes is going to be the last one.”
― Dani Atkins, Our Song

“some of my most meaningful conversations would be with someone who could only bark their response.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Before knowing Adam, I’d thought owners who believed their dogs understood them were crazy. I’d have laughed if you’d told me that one day some of my most meaningful conversations would be with someone who could only bark their response. But then there were a lot of things old me would never have understood. Back then I hadn’t known that losing the person you were meant to grow old with would be so hard that some days you could barely drag yourself out of bed. If it hadn’t been for Fletcher, and the promise I’d made to Adam to take care of him, I could easily have spent weeks on end in our”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Oh, and there's something else I'd never thought I'd end up being... and that's so completely in love with you that I can face all the shit life wants to throw at me, because it also gave me you”
― Dani Atkins, This Love

“I think that was when I knew that despite everything, I was going to be alright again, that I was going to get through thins and come out whole on the other side - when I realised I still remembered how to laugh.”
― Dani Atkins, Our Song

“You think you’re in control of your life, you think you’re the one making all the decisions and then something like this comes along and you realize you’re just a tiny chess-piece being moved around on the whim of something or someone much larger.”
― Dani Atkins, Our Song

“Peachy,’ Lily said, her face softening the way it had done for over forty years whenever she looked at her son. The first time Josh had witnessed the phenomenon had been in a room not dissimilar to the one they were currently occupying. A slippery, squirming infant, still slick with blood, as though he’d fought a battle to get there, had been placed into Lily’s outstretched arms and her face had transformed into an expression that Josh had thought only angels wore. He’d never seen anyone fall in love before, never witnessed the moment when one soul connected with another and formed a bond that could never be broken. Josh had always suspected it would be that way for Lily”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“was”
― Dani Atkins, Fractured

“It would mean too much to me. That’s why we can’t do this.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“Theirs was a true love story; so strong, so powerful, they needed no one else but each other. And suddenly everything cleared in my head because this was what I wanted too. This was my dream, the one that had started with Adam, but still lived on. I didn’t need to find the perfect man to be an ideal husband; I’d already found and then lost that. I also didn’t need a man who made my pulse race and filled my head with thoughts and dreams that could never be, because I’d found and lost that too. What I needed to complete my life, my world and my future was already there. Waiting for me. And I knew in this moment that I was ready for the next incredible, life-changing stage of my life to begin.”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me

“to Finn Douglas”
― Dani Atkins, Six Days

“zweites Leben begann etwa zehn Stunden später, als ich im grellen Licht des Krankenzimmers erwachte – mit einer großen Kopfwunde und einer Vergangenheit, an die ich keinerlei Erinnerung besaß. Dass Freunde und Verwandte mein Bett umringten, hätte es mir eigentlich erleichtern sollen, half aber nichts, weil einer aus dieser”
― Dani Atkins, Die Achse meiner Welt

“The first year will be the worst,’ people had told me at the funeral. I think their words were meant to comfort me, to let me know that life would eventually get better, but at the time it felt like being kicked when you were already down. Those initial three hundred and sixty-five days had been an assault course of firsts. Some stabbed like knife wounds, others had been paper cuts of grief, unexpectedly sharp and painful. You’d expect the first Christmas, first birthday and first anniversary to hurt – and they did. But even worse are the ones that blindside you. The first time a stranger innocently asks, ‘Are you married?’ and you have no idea how to reply, because in your heart you still are, and always will be. Fletcher must have decided it was a day to push the boundaries, for he’d wriggled even higher up the bed to lay his head on the smooth undented pillow beside mine. ‘Nice try, dog, but you’re not sleeping on the bed.’ A smile flitted across my lips, as I realised that if Adam had been the one left alone, the dog would already have claimed my vacant half of the divan. It had taken almost six months before I’d summoned up the courage to wash Adam’s pillowcase. Each night I’d drag his pillow towards me, inhaling the lingering smell of him like an addict, until there was nothing left. It was a big milestone”
― Dani Atkins, Always You and Me