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Colleen Oakley QUOTES

1 " Relationships don't dissolve over one event, one fight, it's a thousand blows, delivered over time, uppercuts, jabs, crosses, some you barely even feel, and then before you know it, you're on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened! "

― Colleen Oakley , Close Enough to Touch

2 " Science can’t explain why two specific people are magnetically drawn to each other instead of repelled. Only love can. "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

3 " And then I keep reading, anyway—but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I'm touching her with my words. That they're crawling in her ears as she sleeps. "

― Colleen Oakley , Close Enough to Touch

4 " So I can’t explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us. "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

5 " I know. But honestly? Sometimes it's the only word that works. "

― Colleen Oakley , Close Enough to Touch

6 " (That sucks.) And I sadly laugh at how succinctly that sums it up. "

― Colleen Oakley , Close Enough to Touch

7 " I suppose all couples feel this way at some point—that their bond is the most special, the strongest, the Greatest Love of All. Not all the time, just in those few and far between moments where you look at the person you’re with and think: Yes. It’s you. "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

8 " Every human being—every single one of us—wakes up each morning hoping, believing, that today is not our day. Not our time. That the storm is not yet here. That our island will not be wiped out. That we will see the sunrise the next morning. That life is worth living. Otherwise, we wouldn’t bother getting out of bed. "

― Colleen Oakley , The Invisible Husband of Frick Island

9 " What is it about darkness that compels one to reveal so much? "

― Colleen Oakley , Close Enough to Touch

10 " why do people always say they could get hit by a bus? Like life is just one big game of Frogger and people are getting struck left and right by dangerous city transport. "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

11 " I was going to be getting the food. "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

12 " He tells me the AWARE technique is an acronym for Accept the anxiety, Watch the anxiety, Act normal, Repeat, and Expect the best. "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

13 " Maybe all that matters is that love is a circle. Infinite. Eternal. Present, even when the person you want to be there most is absent. "

― Colleen Oakley , You Were There Too

14 " As a twenty-one-year-old college student, Daisy Richmond’s answer to the question “If you knew you were going to die in one month, what would you do?” was full of adventure and travel to exotic lands. As a twenty-seven-year-old woman who is faced with a recurrence of breast cancer, her answer is very different. Before I Go is the poignant story of Daisy’s journey to navigate the unexpected twists and turns of life, and the painful process of letting go of everything but love. "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

15 " pushes the gearshift into park. “Speak of the "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

16 " I want my husband to not be possibly falling in love with another woman. "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

17 " called her “supermodel mark”—just in case "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

18 " ... she realized that was the thing about loneliness. It made you susceptible to doing a whole manner of things you might not otherwise do. "

― Colleen Oakley , The Invisible Husband of Frick Island

19 " again—I’ve realized that’s what grieving is, a constant cycle of feeling better and feeling worse, and I’m hopeful that one day I’ll feel better more often than I feel worse—so "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go

20 " Meh. She’s not overly unattractive, but I don’t trust cat people. Maybe it’s the inside knowledge of growing up with one, but I think they’re often like the animals they love—unpredictable and emotionally unstable. You never know when they’ll be aloof and distant or senselessly desperate for your affection. "

― Colleen Oakley , Before I Go