Quotes from Rowan Coleman

Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the worrior queen

I didn't see then what I see now, that the things that make us unremarkable are also the very things we'll fight to death to protect. Unremarkable things turn us into heroes.

Maybe knowing what it is that you want, the future that you have been fighting for, is what it will take to make it happen. It's easy to admit defeat, and to let go of people you love or dreams you have because it's difficult. Fighting for them is what takes courage. Fighting for them is what matters." "But you can't force a person to stay with you," I say. "Sometimes you have to accept defeat.

I'm going to get him to sign my boobs. With his tongue.

They can pick you up out of your life and put you in someone else's? It's just a shame that at some point you always have to come back.

I don't know how to answer, or to explain how I feel or what I see, so I don't, only that I feel sure somehow that once that essence of life leaves a person, it changes what's left behind so completely that it must be some kind of entity, some kind of force that goes somewhere, even if it's just out among the stars.

the most wonderful discoveries that have ever been made by mankind always happen when someone decides to believe in the impossible. 8 JULY 'The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything.

These last few months, I have simply been a woman waiting to be loved once again, loved in a way that I let define me. But I existed before Vincent loved me. I existed before he became lodged in my heart. And if I have lost him, I must still be able to exist. What choice is there when a man stops loving you? You can't really just let yourself blow away on the wind, can you?

I am grieving for the girl who always knew what she wanted and knew how to be alive in this terrifying world. That girl is gone. She is lying in pieces somewhere and I miss her. I miss her and I want her back.

Be kind to people, just be kind. You never know what other people are going through, so whenever you can, however you can, be kind. Be true to yourself. When I say that, I mean just live life the best way that you can, honestly, decently. You won't be perfect. You'll make mistakes, maybe hurt people, and people will hurt you. But that's okay as long as you can know that everything you did, you did with the right intentions.

Never regret love," she says. "That's my motto. I don't ever regret having loved someone too much, only not loving someone enough.

Wenn man plötzlich die Uhr ticken hört, dann hört man nichts anderes mehr. Und ich habe Angst davor, eines Tages nichts mehr zu sein. Ich habe ngst davor, zu Asche und Staub zu werden...

Greg is looking at me; he thinks I don't know it. I've been chopping onions at the kitchen counter for almost five minutes, and I can see his reflection – inside out, convex and stretched – in the chrome kettle we got as a wedding present. He's sitting at the kitchen table, checking me out.

Es que no hay forma de decir en voz alta que se puede odiar a alguien por morirse, como yo la odio a ella

I think it's true that you have to be brave to be happy,' Will says eventually. 'Because if you are happy, then you have to know that one day you might be sad too.

Mi queridísima Leigh, al margen de lo que pase, recuerda siempre, siempre, que todos los días hay que hacerle saber a persona que amas lo mucho que la quieres, y todo irá bien.

Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the warrior queen