Top 36 Daisy Whitney Quotes
#1. Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.
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#2. But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.
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#3. Some decisions are hard, some are easy, but either way it's our choices that matter. Who we chose to align with. What we choose to give in to. What we choose to resist. And most of all, who we choose to be. Because it is always our choice.
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#4. This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.
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#5. As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.
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#6. You're not the same. You're not supposed to be the same. You're supposed to be different. This isn't something you will ever forget.
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#7. Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.
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#8. No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?
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#9. Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.
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#10. I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somewhere else entirely, so far off the map I don't know where to turn next.
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#11. Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is better to protect your heart or to take the biggest risk of all.
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#12. Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.
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#13. Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.
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#14. Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.
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#16. I don't give a shit how many guys you hook up with as long as you use a condom. What I care about is whether you said yes. That's the only thing that matters.
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#17. To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time - and to be at peace with that.
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#18. Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.
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#19. Hush, little students, we'll say the word,
Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Mama's gonna write down everything.
And so that book won't look the same,
Mama's gonna add a brand-new name.
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#20. We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
Without them, we are empty.
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#21. My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.
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#22. I would be a freak with you anytime, anywhere.
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#23. Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.
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#24. Life is short, and life is beautiful, and everything is lovely. Love it, embrace it, smell the lilacs, play with the dog, and love endlessly and fiercely with everything you've got. Live without regret.
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#25. I risk a grin at the thought. Because there's a part of me that likes that idea. Get out of town and never look back.
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#26. Trains are all the ways you miss each other - wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.
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#27. I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.
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#28. Yeah, I'm just here for - I stop for a second, because I'm not sure how to finish the line out loud. To see if I can ever be happy, or even remotely human, again. Would you happen to have the magic cure?
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#29. Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.
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#30. He gets that sometimes you just need to guard the door without knowing why
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#31. Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.
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#32. When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.
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#33. [Referring to rape] It already is bigger than everything else. It lives in front of me, behind me, next to me, inside me every single day. My schedule is dictated by it, my habits by it, my music by it.
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#34. ... if you have someone who wants to heal, sometime they will respond to the unconventional. Their minds are more open to healing, so their bodies become more willing too. I believe that medication, while a wonderful thing, has its limits. That there are answers to be found in the unconventional.
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#36. But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.
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