Daisy Whitney Quotes

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

Trains are all the ways you miss each other - wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.

Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

I risk a grin at the thought. Because there's a part of me that likes that idea. Get out of town and never look back.

No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

You're not the same. You're not supposed to be the same. You're supposed to be different. This isn't something you will ever forget.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

I would be a freak with you anytime, anywhere.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.

He gets that sometimes you just need to guard the door without knowing why

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

I was exactly the person I am not.

Nothing is ever enough.