Amy Neff > Quotes

“No way out of this new reality, this all-consuming motherhood. Demanding more of me than I could have imagined, the saddest happiness I've ever felt, because she's already bigger today than yesterday, already a little less mine. I'm already missing the baby she is, desperate to remember moments I'm certain to forget.”
― Amy Neff, The Days I Loved You Most

“What a cruel side effect, to lose the scent of cookies in the over, the sweet fragrance of a meadow. Had I known...”
― Amy Neff, The Days I Loved You Most

“But it’s hard to know what to say. Given the chance, how do we begin a goodbye, to include everything they will need to hear after we are gone?”
― Amy Neff, The Days I Loved You Most

“They have everything they worked for their entire lives – eac other, their family and freedom from running the Oyster Shell – it doesn’t make sense to cut that short, by even a day. But I do know they would do anything for one another. Even if that means blowing up the island they’ve always inhabited, leaving us with the fallout.”
― Amy Neff, The Days I Loved You Most

“Being with you, that was my greatest dream of all.”
― Amy Neff, The Days I Loved You Most

“Well, if you're so smart, what do you want to be? Yours.”
― Amy Neff, The Days I Loved You Most

“Jospeh laughs, smiles sadly. I hope there is an ocean. And a sun to warm us after swimming. I lean against him. I wouldn't mind if it was sort of like this, all over again”
― Amy Neff, The Days I Loved You Most

“Do you think it will be heaven? He shrugs. i don't know what heaven could offer that could be better than the life we had.”
― Amy Neff

“Norally, my parents are impenetrable, a united front to a fault. I doubted the level of their devotion once, doubted everything I once knew. We are in such a better place now, we’ve been in a good place for years.”
― Amy Neff, The Days I Loved You Most

“These conversations coming often, assurances of love, of gratitude, and I echo them back to my children like a lullaby, I love you, I love you, I will always love you. How lucky I was to call you mine.”
― Amy Neff, The Days I Loved You Most