Top 70 Josie Silver Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “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.”

— Josie Silver

2. “Sometimes you just meet the right person at the wrong time,” I say softly. “Yeah,” he says. “And then you spend every day afterward wishing that time could be rearranged.”

— Josie Silver

3. “Don’t go building your wall so high you can’t climb over it.”

— Josie Silver

4. “I’ve learned not to question my own actions and thoughts too deeply though, sometimes you just have to go with whatever gets you through the day.”

— Josie Silver

5. “Life is the stuff that happens between the cracks in your plans and expectations.”

— Josie Silver

6. “Luxury, love and the finer things in life – these are what you live and travel for.”

— Josie Silver

7. “So many things in my life have changed, but some things will always stay the same.”

— Josie Silver

8. “Time changes everything in the end, Freddie, and I’ve realized now that that’s okay, because what we have is more than just here, or just now. You and me, we’re all the time, and we’re always, and we’re everywhere. If I live a million lifetimes, I’ll find you in all of them, Freddie Hunter.”

— Josie Silver

9. “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?”

— Josie Silver

10. “When you’re young you think you’ve got all the time in the world,” she says. “And then suddenly you turn around and you’re old and one of you isn’t there anymore and you wonder how the years went so fast.”

— Josie Silver

11. “If I live a million lifetimes, I’ll find you in all of them.”

— Josie Silver

12. “Everyone around me is moving forward, away from me.”

— Josie Silver

13. “You don’t get over losing someone you love in six months or two years or twenty, but you do have to find a way to carry on living without feeling as if everything that comes afterward is second best. Some people walk up mountains, others throw themselves out of planes. Everyone has to find their own way back, and if they’re lucky they’ll have people who love them to hold their hand.”

— Josie Silver

14. “From now on, if anyone asks me if I’ve ever fallen in love at first sight, I shall say yes, for one glorious minute on December 21, 2008.”

— Josie Silver

15. “MOST OF LIFE’S defining moments happen unexpectedly; sometimes they slide past you completely unnoticed until afterward, if at all. The last time your child is small enough to carry on your hip. An eye roll exchanged with a stranger who becomes your life-long best friend. The summer job you apply for on impulse and stay at for the next twenty years. Those kinds of things.”

— Josie Silver

16. “Sarah is my best friend in the entire world, and however much and for however long it kills me, I’ll never silently, secretly hold up signs to tell Jack O’Mara, without hope or agenda, that to me he is perfect, and that my wasted heart will always love him.”

— Josie Silver

17. “New Year in particular is so full of portent and promise, weighted with expectation and hopes and idealism, but then on the flip side it can also be the time when people look for change, or say enough is enough and call time on a relationship that’s run its course.”

— Josie Silver

18. “Be happy, you stupid, stupid man. And let me be too.”

— Josie Silver

19. “She’s quite contained and tends to keep her own counsel, and as the years pass she discovers her own strength. I think she’s quietly brave and stoic, and witty inside her own head even if her inherent shyness sometimes makes her seem a little reserved around strangers.”

— Josie Silver

20. “I can’t shake the feeling that someone or something will stop me, grab ahold of my arm and tell me I can’t go, but no one does. I’m on my own. Captain of my own ship, albeit one who has no idea where she’s navigating toward.”

— Josie Silver

21. “It’s strange, but you never stop caring about someone, even if you don’t want to be with them any more.”

— Josie Silver

22. “That’s the thing about flowers, isn’t it? They’re lush and extravagant and demand your attention, and you think they’re the most exquisite thing, but then in the shortest time they’re not very lovely at all. They wilt and they turn the water brown, and soon you can’t hold on to them any longer.”

— Josie Silver

23. “It’s probably for the best if the last time you do something momentous passes you by unheralded:.”

— Josie Silver

24. “The important thing is the choices we make when we are tested. Being married isn’t just a legally binding contract, it’s a choice. It’s saying, I choose you, every single day, I wake up, and I choose you.”

— Josie Silver

25. “Regrets get heavier as you get older.”

— Josie Silver

26. “I think I’ve been trying too hard to be everything to everyone.”

— Josie Silver

27. “I know how painful it can be letting someone you think you love go, but that I don’t believe there’s only one person in the world for each of us. It’s too fanciful, too limiting.”

— Josie Silver

28. “You saw me at my very worst and you didn’t turn your back on me, even though you had every reason to. I was revolting and you were lovely. I’d lost sight of who I was, and you made me remember. I don’t think I ever said thank you, so I’m saying it now. Thank you. You tread lightly through life, but you leave deep footprints that are hard for other people to fill.”

— Josie Silver

29. “Chill your boots, Cinders; you won’t be late for the ball. Promise.”

— Josie Silver

30. “If anyone ever asks if I’ve ever fallen in love at first sight, I shall say yes. For one glorious moment on the 21st of December 2006.”

— Josie Silver

31. “A little bit might be better than a lot because this way we get to walk away remembering only the best of each other.”

— Josie Silver

32. “There comes a point where you have to make the choice to be happy, because being sad for too long is exhausting.”

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33. “Jack sighs, exasperated, kind. ‘Because you’re tired, and you’re worried, and you feel as if you’re always swimming against the tide.”

— Josie Silver

34. “I’ll tell you what I think. Your place isn’t somewhere. It’s someone.”

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35. “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.”

— Josie Silver

36. “For onlookers, it must have been an Oscar-worthy sixty-second silent movie. From now on, if anyone asks me if I’ve ever fallen in love at first sight, I shall say yes, for one glorious minute on 21 December 2008.”

— Josie Silver

37. “It’s not a direction I’d ever imagined I’d go in, but that’s okay. Life does that, doesn’t it? Reroutes you as it goes along.”

— Josie Silver

38. “I catch a glimpse of how much I’ve withdrawn from her. I know she doesn’t for a minute resent it or blame me, but it must have been hard on her; she’s lost me as well as Freddie, in a way. I make a mental note that one day, when I am better, I’ll tell her how sometimes, on the dark days, she’s been the only light I could see.”

— Josie Silver

39. “It’s a much more beautiful city than I’d imagined, soaring gray buildings and grand, imposing architecture. Perhaps it’s the fact that the streets glitter with frost and there are snowflakes blowing in the air, but there’s a magical edge to it. It’s Christmas in two days; revelers spill onto the cobbled pavements from the bars and pubs, and it’s wall-to-wall festive music on the cab radio.”

— Josie Silver

40. “I guess I’m trying to work out if people need to start out at one hundred percent or if they can start at, I don’t know, seventy, and work their way up.”

— Josie Silver

41. “It’s hard to accept that life always marches forward, isn’t it? Always forward, never back. I was forced to change when my life suddenly changed around me, but even if it hadn’t, I’d have changed in one way or another sooner enough, wouldn’t I? Because people do, don’t they, no one stays the same forever. Everything is just so fragile, isn’t it? We make our decisions dependent on the day, the weather, our mood, the phases of the moon, what we had for breakfast.”

— Josie Silver

42. “The world is filled with close-to-perfect couples.”

— Josie Silver

43. “We sit there for a while longer, huddled together, watching as the first flakes of snow drift down from the midnight sky. There are no rings to give back, no possessions to tussle over, no kids to hand over in blustery car parks. Just two people, about to part ways.”

— Josie Silver

44. “Perhaps it’s time to learn how to stand on our own, rather than lean on each other.”

— Josie Silver

45. “Hes that kind of man. Every few years he sends news of where he is, and he even turned up on the doorstep unannounced once or twice when we were still at school. He’s not a bad person, just a flighty one.”

— Josie Silver

46. “The human brain is wired to cope with grief. It knows even as we fall into unfathomably dark places, there will be light again, and if we just keep moving forward in one brave straight line, however slowly, we’ll find our way back again.”

— Josie Silver

47. “There’s something about living in a different place that allows you to be whoever you want to be.”

— Josie Silver

48. “Every now and then, I wish I could press pause on life and stay longer in a moment. This is one of those moments.”

— Josie Silver

49. “Mum and Dad are there too, of course. No one’s doing anything in particular, no schmaltzy dancing or profound speeches. We’re all just there, and it’s so heartwarming and perfect that I don’t want to open my eyes and see all the empty chairs around the table.”

— Josie Silver

50. “Despite the fairy-tale snowstorm out there, this isn’t Narnia. This is London, real life, where hearts get kicked and bruised and broken, but somehow they still keep beating.”

— Josie Silver