One Day in December QUOTES

21 " Because how could you ever be too tired to watch some hapless guy stand out in the cold and hold up signs silently declaring to his best friend’s wife that his wasted heart will always love her? Though—is that romance? I’m not so sure. I mean, it kind of is, in a schmaltzy way, but it’s also being the shittiest friend on the planet. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

22 " I won’t dwell though, because Christmas should be a time of hope and love and, most appealing of all at this very moment, sleep. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

23 " She’s quite contained and tends to keep her own counsel, and as the years pass she discovers her own strength. I think she’s quietly brave and stoic, and witty inside her own head even if her inherent shyness sometimes makes her seem a little reserved around strangers. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

24 " I wanted you to kiss me, Jack," I say, bereft. It's not as if he isn't aware what I wanted back there; to be coy would be pointless. "I don't like myself for it." He strokes my hair, cups my chin, looks me in the eyes. "If I tell you something, do you promise to never tell another living soul, not even a goldfish?" I swallow, eye to eye with him as I nod, and he takes my face between both of his hands. Whatever he's about to say, I think it's something I'm going to remember forever. "I wanted to kiss you back there in the pub, Laurie, and I want to kiss you even more right now. You're one of the loveliest people I've ever met in my whole life." He looks away, down the length of the deserted street and then back at me again. "You're beautiful and kind, and you make me laugh, and when you look at me like that with your summer hedgerow eyes...only a fucking saint wouldn't kiss you." Then he leans me against the wall with the weight of his body, and because he isn't a fucking saint, he kisses me. Jack O'Mara dips his head and kisses me in the snow, his lips trembling and then hot and sure, and I'm crying and kissing him back, opening my mouth to let his tongue slide over mine as he makes this low, injured animal noise in his throat. I feel the relief of him in every follicle of my hair, and in every cell of my body, and in the blood in my veins. His breathing is as shallow as mine, and it's so much more than I've ever imagined, and trust me, I used to let my imagination run riot where Jack O'Mara was concerned. He holds my face as if I'm precious and then pushes his fingers into my hair, cupping my head in his hands when I tip it back. This is the only time we will ever kiss each other. He knows it, I know it, and it's so achingly melancholy-sexy that I feel tears threaten again. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

25 " But what else was I supposed to say? That I felt as if she’d just kissed fucking stardust into my mouth. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

26 " shook "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

27 " Be happy, you stupid, stupid man. And let me be too. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

28 " The world is filled with close-to-perfect couples. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

29 " Is this just a fact of life? You have to grow up and shed your old friends like papery snakeskin to make room for the new? "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

30 " New Year in particular is so full of portent and promise, weighted with expectation and hopes and idealism, but then on the flip side it can also be the time when people look for change, or say enough is enough and call time on a relationship that’s run its course. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

31 " It’s not a direction I’d ever imagined I’d go in, but that’s okay. Life does that, doesn’t it? Reroutes you as it goes along. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

32 " I guess I’m trying to work out if people need to start out at one hundred percent or if they can start at, I don’t know, seventy, and work their way up. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

33 " I told him that there comes a point where you have to make the choice to be happy, because being sad for too long is exhausting. And that one day, you’ll look back, and you’ll not be able to remember exactly what it was you loved about that person. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

34 " Sometimes you just meet the right person at the wrong time,” I say softly. “Yeah,” he says. “And then you spend every day afterward wishing that time could be rearranged. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

35 " Because how could you ever be too tired to watch some hapless guy stand out in the cold and hold up signs silently declaring to his best friend’s wife that his wasted heart will always love her? "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

36 " local beer and reading The Great Gatsby in a hammock. There’s something about living in a different place that allows you to be whoever you want to be. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

37 " But I also said that sometimes, rarely, people can come back into your life. And if that happens, you should keep those people close to you forever. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

38 " Jack sighs, exasperated, kind. ‘Because you’re tired, and you’re worried, and you feel as if you’re always swimming against the tide. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

39 " No more living life at half-mast; the lights have gone out on our marriage. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December

40 " I turn the water temperature up to a tiny bit hotter than is comfortable and stand there with it raining down over my head. I'm so achingly disappointed with myself. It's not that I don't love Oscar or that I don't want to marry him. It's nothing like that. It's just crushing to know that it's still there, like a muscle reflex.

That when someone says 'the man you've always dreamed of,' I think of Jack O'Mara. "

― Josie Silver , One Day in December