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“This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Perhaps he would ask me what books mean to me. I would tell him that it means living another life;”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I can see some of the roses still blooming in my mother´s garden. Brown on the edges and bright in other colors, their petals drooping downward, dying just as their lives have begun.
They stayed past their time, and I´ve realized that I have too.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“If he had been with me, everything would have been different.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I cannot imagine not wanting to live. I cannot imagine not believing that it will be better someday. I cannot imagine that there is nothing left to see, that there is nothing to tie me to Earth. As long as I want to live, then I must be fine.”
― Laura Nowlin , If He Had Been With Me

“I could close my eyes and believe that we have never been apart. I could invent a new past to remember.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“On August 8, Phineas Smith died,”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“It was the sort of happiness that fools you into thinking that there is still so much more, maybe even enough to laugh forever.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I wasn’t with Finny on that August night, but my imagination has burned the scene in my mind so that it feels like a memory.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Are you sure you still would want to if you were sober?" I say.
Finny nods. "Yeah," he says again. "But I'm only telling you because I'm not.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“There will always be something I cannot protect him from.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“My mother named me Autumn. People say to me “Oh how pretty,” and then the name seems to glide away from them, not grasping all the things that the word should mean to them, shades of red, change, and death”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Finny?
Oh, Autumn.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“After this,” he says, “things are going to be the way they were always supposed to be.” Then he climbs inside and closes the door.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“They would rather ruin their perfect love trying to make it work because being unhappy together is better than being unhappy apart.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Death happens to him more suddenly than I can describe to you or even care to imagine.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“There is real life and then there are books. I try to puzzle out what is real and what isn’t, what I can have and what I never will.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I think we're supposed to experience as much beauty as we can.
Isn't that the same as happiness, too?
No, because sometimes sad things are beautiful.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me