The Two Lives of Lydia Bird Quotes

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“I found the old me, still in here, and the new me sitting right alongside her. We made friends.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“MOST OF LIFE’S defining moments happen unexpectedly; sometimes they slide past you completely unnoticed until afterward, if at all.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“I’m dozing, in that blissed out state you only reach at the end of special days with special people.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“I think I’ve been trying too hard to be everything to everyone.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“What happened yesterday, or last week, or ten years ago … those things aren’t important. What really matters is now, here, today, tomorrow, next year. Some people fall in love at first sight and stay together for ever, other people marry their childhood sweetheart and end up in the divorce courts. You can't predict life, Jonah, you can only truly try to make the best of whatever it throws at you.´”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“Everyone around me is moving forward, away from me.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“So many things in my life have changed, but some things will always stay the same.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“When you’re young you think you’ve got all the time in the world,’ she says. ‘And then suddenly you turn round and you’re old and one of you isn’t there any more and you wonder how the years went so fast.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“If I live a million lifetimes, I’ll find you in all of them.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“Chill your boots, Cinders; you won’t be late for the ball. Promise.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“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 commons sense. How unaccountably strange we are.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“It’s probably for the best if the last time you do something momentous passes you by unheralded:”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird