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One Night on the Island QUOTES

One Night on the Island QUOTES

1 " And for a little while, he made me feel as if I'd swallowed stars. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

2 " You’re the micro–love of my life. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

3 " Life is the stuff that happens in the cracks between your plans and expectations. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

4 " That’s the way it is sometimes, isn’t it? Life is the stuff that happens in the cracks between your plans and expectations. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

5 " Regrets get heavier as you get older. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

6 " Brianne has a look of genuine surprise on her face. “Cleo, that’s so great! We don’t get many new knitters on the island.” “The last one turned out to be a crocheter,” Dolores mutters, as dark as if she’d said murderer. “The audacity!” Delta’s green eyes dance. “Ma, you should have shoved her crochet hook right up her— "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

7 " separation is made up of a million tiny disassociations that eventually add up to passing someone on the street and barely recognizing them. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

8 " Don’t go building your wall so high you can’t climb over it. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

9 " You've experienced a loss - more than one and you need to grieve. You don't always have to be the strong one. You're allowed to fall apart. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

10 " Life is the stuff that happens in the cracks between your plans and expectations "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

11 " It's okay to be reckless with your internal organs in your twenties, but I'm thirty now and need more careful curation "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

12 " Every now and then, in just the right light at just the right nanosecond, you can capture the entire essence of a person in a single frame. This is one of those magic moments. I can hear her carefree laugh; I can see her innate goodness. If you didn’t know the person in this photograph, you’d want to. You’d look into her eyes for a while and you’d know that she’s someone who leaves a bright trail of starlight behind her, guiding lights for lost souls on the darkest of nights. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

13 " Being a father isn’t supposed to be a bed of roses,” I say. “It’s not just pretty for a while and then disposable when it’s useless to you. It’s a forest, constantly changing, growing, evolving. It’s shelter and roots and branches to climb and leaves to break their fall. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

14 " Others hover around the middle serious: I promise not to make myself finish books if I’m not invested by page fifty-nine. Don’t ask me why page fifty-nine, it just feels far enough in to know. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

15 " I, Cleo Wilder, do take myself, Cleo Wilder, to be my strongest advocate and my most loyal friend, my loudest cheerleader, and my most trusted confidante.” I pause and gaze out to sea, my palms resting on my knees, my hair swirling around my shoulders in the wind. I acknowledge I haven’t always been my own best friend, and I certainly haven’t always been my own strongest advocate. I’ve lingered too long in toxic relationships, and I’ve told myself to put up with things I’d tell a friend not to tolerate. “I promise to listen to myself, to take the time to hear the voice in my gut, because I know myself better than anyone and I always have my own best interests at heart. I’m wise enough to know when someone is disingenuous, and I know when enough is enough. I also know that I am enough, and I’m brave, and I will succeed. I won’t judge myself too harshly when I get things wrong, because everyone gets things wrong sometimes, but I won’t let myself off the hook without learning lessons either. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

16 " I’ll trust myself,” I say. “I won’t be afraid to turn my ship around and sail in a different direction if the waters get choppy, even if it seemed like the right trajectory when I embarked. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

17 " in no small part because I’ve been gifted so much flamingo-related shite that I could open a flamingo-related shite shop. "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island

18 " love my family dearly, but surely they know me well enough to know that the ghosts of my past jumping out at me in a darkened room would be my personal hell? "

― Josie Silver , One Night on the Island