“ Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing. Daisy Whitney
“ Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway. Daisy Whitney
“ [Referring to rape] It already is bigger than everything else. It lives in front of me, behind me, next to me, inside me every single day. My schedule is dictated by it, my habits by it, my music by i… Daisy Whitney
“ But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life. 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, t… Daisy Whitney
“ You’re not the same. You’re not supposed to be the same. You’re supposed to be different. This isn’t something you will ever forget. Daisy Whitney
“ No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is? 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 t… Daisy Whitney
“ Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living. Daisy Whitney
“ 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 somewher… Daisy Whitney
“ Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore. Daisy Whitney
“ Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good. Daisy Whitney
“ When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else. Daisy Whitney
“ This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm living,… Daisy Whitney
“ 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 as… Daisy Whitney
“ But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack. Daisy Whitney
“ Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by. 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. Daisy Whitney
