18 Quotes by Colleen Oakley

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

I was going to be getting the food.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.