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1 " My journey has taught me to use my energy in a positive way. Don’t angst, don’t stress and don’t worry. The shit that’s going to happen is going to happen anyway. "
― Jade West , Hello Stranger
2 " All hellos ultimately have their goodbyes. And all goodbyes hurt so much harder if the love they are founded on is so damn strong. Still, all hellos with people you love are worth it. They are all worth their weight in gold. "
3 " Reading time was the only time I ever truly allowed myself. "
4 " Every moment truly is magical, just so long as your eyes aren’t blind to the wonders. "
5 " Hope was more often than not a false high that led to a greater low. "
6 " I couldn’t take the flipside of the very same coin. The flatness, and the disappointment and the nothing. Because that’s what this was now, my life with Liam. It was nothing. "
7 " it was crazy, just how a hello, stranger on the train can turn into something that sets your life on a whole new road. "
8 " I guess that’s fate, though, isn’t it? It rocks into your world and taps its magic wand and there you are, staring out at a horizon that blows your mind. "
9 " Fun. I was becoming ever more familiar with the concept since the Chloe whirlwind slammed into my world. "
10 " Our story was only just beginning. We’d only just turned the first page. "
11 " Reading time was the only time I ever truly allowed myself. The only time I slipped out of my own world into someone else’s and left the heaviness of mine behind. My only escape. "
12 " People resign themselves to be a product of what has happened to them without realising that they have a choice of who to be in any given moment. Change takes an instant.” Another pause as she rasped in her breaths. “My journey has taught me to use my energy in a positive way. Don’t angst, don’t stress and don’t worry. The shit that’s going to happen is going to happen anyway. "
13 " All the miniscule things have huge power. It’s the tiny things that we need to appreciate, all day, every day. And if things go crap and need sorting, they need sorting. No looking back and dwelling on the past. No blaming things for what’s happened. You just do it. Done. Dusted. Move on. "
14 " The moment is now, Chloe. It’s always now. Not about reliving the past or dreaming up the future, it’s in the here and now. Enjoy as many of those moments as you can, because they never come twice, my love. "
15 " He had me. Every part of me, claimed by every part of him. "
16 " even though I felt as examined as I’d ever felt, I didn’t feel judged by her. Not in the slightest. "
17 " It’s ok,” I told her. “You can talk about it. Death is death. People gloss over it and avoid the topic as much as possible, but it doesn’t change a thing. My mother upstairs is dying. She knows it, I know it. It’s just a matter of time now. "
18 " her big blue eyes searching mine, and it was intoxicating all over again, that much enthusiasm my way from such a pretty, buoyant creature "
19 " She gripped my hand in a vice with hers, and slapped it to her chest. “This is where it counts. Not how compatible you are. Not where you met her. None of that crap. What matters is here. In the heart. "
20 " I was smiling in a way that had been lost to me for a long, long time. "