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Daisy Whitney is a reporter, the specific birth and death dates are unknown.

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“Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.”

Home Loss Family Mom Parents

Book:When You Were Here

Source: When You Were Here

“And we're all good, everything is forgiven between Beethoven and me because this is the part of me that hasn't changed. In this monent I'm not defined by the other things, the things that happened to me, the things I didn't choose. This is the part of me that defines me for all time, for always. The thing I choose completely.”

Forgiveness Moving On Rape

Book:The Mockingbirds

Source: The Mockingbirds

“She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even legible. "What's wrong with it?" I asked her. "It's not good enough yet. You have to try harder," she said, her voice gentle. "You have to try hard at everything you do. That's all I ask." I rolled my eyes and revised it, and over time her approach wore off on me and I became like her too - wanting to do my best, expecting my best.”

Mother Effort Family Mom Perseverance The Best

Book:When You Were Here

Source: When You Were Here

“Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.”

Life Living Emptiness Feeling

Book:When You Were Here

Source: When You Were Here

“Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.”

Life Death House Loss Rooms Family Echoes

Book:When You Were Here

Source: When You Were Here

“I risk a grin at the thought. Because there's a part of me that likes that idea. Get out of town and never look back.”

Leaving Never Good Bye Town Look Back

Book:When You Were Here

Source: When You Were Here

“I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somewhere else entirely, so far off the map I don't know where to turn next.”

People Life Hurt Strength Normal Crisis Words

Book:When You Were Here

Source: When You Were Here

“Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.”

Way Missing Train Track Wrong Time

Author:Daisy Whitney

“Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.”

Doubt Huge Bears Normal Standing Burden

Author:Daisy Whitney

“Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.”

Sometimes Instinct

Author:Daisy Whitney

“I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.”

People Want Feels Looks Moments Left Behinds Offers Stores This Life Shops Left Behind Live Every Moment

Author:Daisy Whitney

“To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time—and to be at peace with that.”

Knows Way Giving Should Sometimes Moving Turns Fighting Love Is Letting Go Our Time Greatest Gifts

Author:Daisy Whitney

“I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.”

Want Needs Church Right Now Take Me

Author:Daisy Whitney

“Some decisions are hard, some are easy, but either way it's our choices that matter. Who we chose to align with. What we choose to give in to. What we choose to resist. And most of all, who we choose to be. Because it is always our choice.”

Way Giving Matter Hard Choices Easy Decision Our Choices

Author:Daisy Whitney

“Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.”

Sometimes Opposites

Author:Daisy Whitney

“We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.”

People Ideas Empty Core Juicy

Author:Daisy Whitney

“My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.”

Sides Answers Our Lives Mom Faults My Mom Make Sense Swings

Author:Daisy Whitney

“As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.”

Stand Alone

Author:Daisy Whitney

“Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful story about whether it is better to protect your heart or to take the biggest risk of all.”

Thinking Heart Stories Beautiful Risk Theory My Heart Protect Assumption Protect Your Heart

Author:Daisy Whitney

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