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81 " Cierro los ojos y, aunque nunca he sido ni remotamente creyente, rezo. "
― Josie Silver , One Day in December
82 " Who’s to say what’s right and wrong with love, anyway? This isn’t romance by numbers, it’s real life. "
83 " I’m not a bitch though; or maybe I’m just a quiet one inside my own head. Isn’t everyone "
84 " I’m sickly nervous every time the phone rings and there’s a permanent cesspool of fear sloshing around in the base of my stomach. If I had to sum it up in a sentence, I’d say I feel hunted. I’m caught in the crosshairs, waiting for the bullet that may or may not come, running, looking over my shoulder, braced for impact. "
85 " 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. "
86 " This is London, real life, where hearts get kicked and bruised and broken, but somehow they still keep beating. "
87 " 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 "
88 " I'm hemorrhaging the people I love and I don't know how to stop it. 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? "
89 " As I close my eyes too, I remember the first day I met Sarah, and the first time I saw Jack, and how very tangled and complicated our lives have become over the years. We are a triangle, but our sides have kept changing length. Nothing has ever quite been equal. Perhaps it's time to learn how to stand on our own, rather than lean on each other. "
90 " I need to make “What would Sarah do?” my life motto—I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t spend a year of her life moping. "
91 " Soy consciente de lo fácil que resulta quedarse atascada en una rutina y renunciar a tus sueños. Pero no voy a rendirme, todavía no. "
92 " In another place, another time, we’d have been pretty damn close to perfect "
93 " I glance toward Sarah, crazy guilty, certain that she must be able to sense something amiss, but she’s just grinning at us both like a loon. Thank God for cheap wine. "
94 " Not even a goldfish "
95 " You know how some events turn out to be the big stepping-stones between one part of your life and the next? I don't just mean the steps you intend to take, like leaving home or starting a new job or marrying the person you love on a summer's afternoon. I mean the unexpected steps: the middle-of-the-night phone calls, the accidents, the risks that don't pay off. My twenty-third birthday turned out to be one of my unexpected stepping-stones; a step away from the solid foundations built by my indomitable parents toward quicksand where they are fragile and human and need me as much as I need them. It's knocked my world off-kilter; I'm sickly nervous every time the phone rings and there's a permanent cesspool of fear sloshing around in the base of my stomach. If I had to sum it up in a sentence, I'd say I feel hunted. I'm caught in the, waiting for the bullet that may or may not come, running, looking over my shoulder, braced for impact." -Laurie "
96 " It’s made me realize something inevitable, something that’s been a long time coming: he and I would be better off without each other "