Top 70 Josie Silver Quotes (2024 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. “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

3. “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

4. “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

5. “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

6. “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

7. “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

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

— Josie Silver

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

— Josie Silver

10. “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

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

— Josie Silver

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

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

— Josie Silver

16. “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

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

— Josie Silver

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

— Josie Silver

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

— Josie Silver

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

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

— Josie Silver

24. “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

25. “Brianne has a look of genuine surprise on her face. “Cleo, that’s so great! We don’t get many new knitters on the island.” “The last one turned out to be a crocheter,” Dolores mutters, as dark as if she’d said murderer. “The audacity!” Delta’s green eyes dance. “Ma, you should have shoved her crochet hook right up her –.”

— Josie Silver

26. “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

27. “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

28. “Your life is still your life, Lyds. You’re still here, inconveniently breathing, watching the sun go down and the moon come up regardless of whether you think it’s got a damn nerve showing its shiny face every day.”

— Josie Silver

29. “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

30. “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

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

— Josie Silver

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

— Josie Silver

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

— Josie Silver

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

— Josie Silver

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

— 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. “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

38. “We do this most days; use technology to make it feel as if we’re in the same room rather than on opposite sides of the world.”

— Josie Silver

39. “It’s okay to be reckless with your internal organs in your twenties, but I’m thirty now and need more careful curation.”

— Josie Silver

40. “It’s also the night that I finally get to meet Sarah’s new boyfriend.”

— Josie Silver

41. “I’m dozing, in that blissed out state you only reach at the end of special days with special people.”

— Josie Silver

42. “I wonder why it is that we fall in love with some people and not others, even when we wish we could. Billions of humans, all of us scurrying around the planet, falling in and out of love with each other for no reason explicable by logic or numbers or common sense. How unaccountability strange we are.”

— Josie Silver

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

— Josie Silver

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

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45. “I will if you will,” she says, a line reminiscent of so many other days of our lives. Sledging down the hill behind the house on winter morning when we were kids, our backsides on Mum’s tea trays: I will if you will. Getting our ears pierced at the dodgy salon in the precinct when we were teenagers: I will if you will. Another drink at last orders, even though we’ve both had enough: I will if you will.”

— Josie Silver

46. “Grief is an odd thing. It’s mine and no one can do it for me but, there’s been a whole supporting cast of silent actors around me in the wings.”

— Josie Silver

47. “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

48. “Because how could you ever be too tired to watch some hapless guy stand out in the cold and hold up signs silently declaring to his best friend’s wife that his wasted heart will always love her? Though – is that romance? I’m not so sure. I mean, it kind of is, in a schmaltzy way, but it’s also being the shittiest friend on the planet.”

— Josie Silver

49. “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

50. “That’s the deal we make when we love someone, isn’t it? Somewhere along the path one person is going to have to find a way to carry on without the other.”

— Josie Silver