Top 80 Josie Silver Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Perhaps it’s time to learn how to stand on our own, rather than lean on each other.”

— Josie Silver

52. “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

53. “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

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

— Josie Silver

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “But then someone has to be the one who hangs up for the last time... don’t they?”

— Josie Silver

59. “I didn’t cry because the trek was so strenuous, although it certainly was. I cried with sheer relief, hot, salty tears, releasing my heavy burdens into the earth as I walked.”

— Josie Silver

60. “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

61. “I feel like chucking the coffee in the nearest plant pot and ordering a cocktail.”

— Josie Silver

62. “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

63. “It’s the swoon-worthy climax of our showreel moment, this beautiful, achingly sexy kiss, slow and electric, full of pure, vulnerable kiss-me-forever magic.”

— Josie Silver

64. “No more living life at half-mast; the lights have gone out on our marriage.”

— Josie Silver

65. “I imagine it’s the kind of dress Elizabeth Bennet would have worn when she married Mr Darcy.”

— Josie Silver

66. “There’s the reassuring smell of a coal fire and beeswax polish, and the dark-green leather button-back booths are deep and comfortable, built for long, relaxed drinking sessions. An old man and his snoozing Jack Russell are the only other patrons. It’s one of those unpretentious, end-of-the-world pubs that you know hasn’t changed much in decades, ruddy quarry tiles and a brass surround running the length of the well-stocked bar.”

— Josie Silver

67. “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 unaccountably strange we are.”

— Josie Silver

68. “But it sits between us, unresolved, as if we shrouded it in a dustsheet and repainted around it, and I know that one day we’re going to have to take the sheet off and see what’s left underneath.”

— Josie Silver

69. “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

70. “I’ve learned since losing my mother that there is always a missing piece at any festivity or celebration. Other things and other people do not fill in that space, the river simply flows around.”

— Josie Silver

71. “He’s so very good to me; unstintingly generous and thoughtful.”

— Josie Silver

72. “MOST OF LIFE’S defining moments happen unexpectedly; sometimes they slide past you completely unnoticed until afterward, if at all.”

— Josie Silver

73. “I won’t dwell though, because Christmas should be a time of hope and love and, most appealing of all at this very moment, sleep.”

— Josie Silver

74. “You guys have enough baggage to fill a gosh dang carousel at JFK, but isn’t that kind of the point of love, that you help each other carry the bags? Fresh starts are for Hallmark movies, not real life.”

— Josie Silver

75. “I started to enjoy the writing process itself, to remember how it felt to create worlds different to mine, to spend time thinking about a story that isn’t my own.”

— Josie Silver

76. “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

77. “That’s the way it is sometimes, isn’t it? Life is the stuff that happens in the cracks between your plans and expectations.”

— Josie Silver

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

— Josie Silver

79. “I slump and close my eyes, wondering if there will ever be a time when it feels like all the pieces of my life were in the right place.”

— Josie Silver

80. “Life is just so damn complicated, isn’t it, a series of random coincidences and chance meetings that add up to a lifetime.”

— Josie Silver

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

— Josie Silver

82. “You’re the micro–love of my life.”

— Josie Silver

83. “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?”

— Josie Silver

84. “Sometimes it’s the letting go of the things that sets you free, Iris.”

— Josie Silver