Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here Quotes
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.
Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.
Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.
Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.
Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.
Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.
No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?
Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.
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.
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.
But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.
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.
