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Top 20 Colleen Oakley Quotes (2025 Update)

Colleen Oakley Quote: “He tells me the AWARE technique is an acronym for Accept the anxiety, Watch the anxiety, Act normal, Repeat, and Expect the best.”

1. “He tells me the AWARE technique is an acronym for Accept the anxiety, Watch the anxiety, Act normal, Repeat, and Expect the best.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “I want my husband to not be possibly falling in love with another woman.”

2. “I want my husband to not be possibly falling in love with another woman.”

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Colleen Oakley Quote: “Science can’t explain why two specific people are magnetically drawn to each other instead of repelled. Only love can.”

3. “Science can’t explain why two specific people are magnetically drawn to each other instead of repelled. Only love can.”

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Colleen Oakley Quote: “And I wonder if this is what people mean when they say they’re falling for somebody. That it feels like your stomach is actually falling out of your body.”

4. “And I wonder if this is what people mean when they say they’re falling for somebody. That it feels like your stomach is actually falling out of your body.”

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Colleen Oakley Quote: “Relationships don’t dissolve over one event, one fight, it’s a thousand blows, delivered over time, uppercuts, jabs, crosses, some you barely even feel, and then before you know it, you’re on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened!”

5. “Relationships don’t dissolve over one event, one fight, it’s a thousand blows, delivered over time, uppercuts, jabs, crosses, some you barely even feel, and then before you know it, you’re on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened!”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “Meh. She’s not overly unattractive, but I don’t trust cat people. Maybe it’s the inside knowledge of growing up with one, but I think they’re often like the animals they love – unpredictable and emotionally unstable. You never know when they’ll be aloof and distant or senselessly desperate for your affection.”

6. “Meh. She’s not overly unattractive, but I don’t trust cat people. Maybe it’s the inside knowledge of growing up with one, but I think they’re often like the animals they love – unpredictable and emotionally unstable. You never know when they’ll be aloof and distant or senselessly desperate for your affection.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “As a twenty-one-year-old college student, Daisy Richmond’s answer to the question “If you knew you were going to die in one month, what would you do?” was full of adventure and travel to exotic lands. As a twenty-seven-year-old woman who is faced with a recurrence of breast cancer, her answer is very different. Before I Go is the poignant story of Daisy’s journey to navigate the unexpected twists and turns of life, and the painful process of letting go of everything but love.”

7. “As a twenty-one-year-old college student, Daisy Richmond’s answer to the question “If you knew you were going to die in one month, what would you do?” was full of adventure and travel to exotic lands. As a twenty-seven-year-old woman who is faced with a recurrence of breast cancer, her answer is very different. Before I Go is the poignant story of Daisy’s journey to navigate the unexpected twists and turns of life, and the painful process of letting go of everything but love.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “What is it about darkness that compels one to reveal so much?”

8. “What is it about darkness that compels one to reveal so much?”

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Colleen Oakley Quote: “And then I keep reading, anyway – but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I’m touching her with my words. That they’re crawling in her ears as she sleeps.”

9. “And then I keep reading, anyway – but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I’m touching her with my words. That they’re crawling in her ears as she sleeps.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “So I can’t explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us.”

10. “So I can’t explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “I was going to be getting the food.”

11. “I was going to be getting the food.”

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Colleen Oakley Quote: “I suppose all couples feel this way at some point – that their bond is the most special, the strongest, the Greatest Love of All. Not all the time, just in those few and far between moments where you look at the person you’re with and think: Yes. It’s you.”

12. “I suppose all couples feel this way at some point – that their bond is the most special, the strongest, the Greatest Love of All. Not all the time, just in those few and far between moments where you look at the person you’re with and think: Yes. It’s you.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “Maybe all that matters is that love is a circle. Infinite. Eternal. Present, even when the person you want to be there most is absent.”

13. “Maybe all that matters is that love is a circle. Infinite. Eternal. Present, even when the person you want to be there most is absent.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “To know if I’m alone in my longing, a lighthouse signaling to an empty sea.”

14. “To know if I’m alone in my longing, a lighthouse signaling to an empty sea.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “Every human being – every single one of us – wakes up each morning hoping, believing, that today is not our day. Not our time. That the storm is not yet here. That our island will not be wiped out. That we will see the sunrise the next morning. That life is worth living. Otherwise, we wouldn’t bother getting out of bed.”

15. “Every human being – every single one of us – wakes up each morning hoping, believing, that today is not our day. Not our time. That the storm is not yet here. That our island will not be wiped out. That we will see the sunrise the next morning. That life is worth living. Otherwise, we wouldn’t bother getting out of bed.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “Nothing in life goes according to plan. Nothing. And the sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be.”

16. “Nothing in life goes according to plan. Nothing. And the sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be.”

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Colleen Oakley Quote: “In life, there were two kinds of friends: friends who would wish you well on your journey to battle, and friends who would jump in the trenches with you.”

17. “In life, there were two kinds of friends: friends who would wish you well on your journey to battle, and friends who would jump in the trenches with you.”

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Colleen Oakley Quote: “She lay there in the dark and allowed the grief to flow through her veins, thick as mud. She’d learned long ago not to fight it, to make space for it, the way one might for a new tchotchke on the shelf, a souvenir from a trip you didn’t want to forget. That was all grief was, really, Louise had determined – remembering.”

18. “She lay there in the dark and allowed the grief to flow through her veins, thick as mud. She’d learned long ago not to fight it, to make space for it, the way one might for a new tchotchke on the shelf, a souvenir from a trip you didn’t want to forget. That was all grief was, really, Louise had determined – remembering.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “Why is it called a grandfather clock and not a grandmother clock?” her eldest granddaughter, Poppy, asked once. “Because only a man would find the need to announce it every time he performed his job as required,” Louise replied.”

19. “Why is it called a grandfather clock and not a grandmother clock?” her eldest granddaughter, Poppy, asked once. “Because only a man would find the need to announce it every time he performed his job as required,” Louise replied.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “Sometimes it just feels like we still spend so much time trying to teach the house not to catch on fire, instead of teaching the arsonist not to light it.”

20. “Sometimes it just feels like we still spend so much time trying to teach the house not to catch on fire, instead of teaching the arsonist not to light it.”

— Colleen Oakley

Colleen Oakley Quote: “Every path has its puddle. That was what Mrs. Olecki always said. No sense dwelling on them – you just gotta walk around them.”

21. “Every path has its puddle. That was what Mrs. Olecki always said. No sense dwelling on them – you just gotta walk around them.”

— Colleen Oakley

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