This Is Us Quotes (Season 6)

Until a day is over, there’s always a chance you’ll remember it for something else.

When you’re younger, time seems to move a little bit slower. Summer vacation is a lifetime. But the older we get, the faster time just seems to come at us.

You will not make your lives smaller because of me. This thing that’s happening to me will not be the thing that holds you back. So, take the risks. Make the big moves, even if they’re small moves. Forge ahead with your lives in any and every direction that moves you. I am your mother, and I’m sick. And I’m asking you to be fearless.[to her children]

When you’re young, you’re always trying to be older. Then, when you get old, you’re always trying to go back, be back. Try and appreciate the moments. That’s what we’re doing, just collecting these little moments. We don’t recognize them when we’re in them because we’re too busy looking forward. But then we spend the rest of our lives looking back. Trying to remember them. Trying to be back inside them. It’s strange, the things you remember.

Such a strange relationship: grandparent. Not as complicated as parent, not as fraught. But it’s just unconditional. Easy, pure love. What an unusual thing. To love someone so unconditionally when you know time probably won’t allow you to be a big part of their story.

If something makes you sad when it ends, it must have been pretty wonderful when it was happening. Truth be told, I’ve always felt it a bit lazy to just think of the world as sad, because so much of it is. Because everything ends. Everything dies. But if you step back, if you step back and look at the whole picture, if you’re brave enough to allow yourself the gift of a really wide perspective, if you do that, you’ll see that the end is not sad. It’s just the start of the next incredibly beautiful thing.[to Rebecca]

You’re gonna forget a lot about these years, but look at your mother, right now, and remember this. Don’t you ever forget how incredible that woman is.[to his daughters]

You’d think that we would stop sweating the small stuff as we got older, when bigger things started happening to us, but nope. Not the case.

What a thing being a kid.[Rebecca Pearson: What a thing. Being a parent.]

This is not how our story ends. Just because our marriage is over, doesn’t mean our story’s over.[to Toby]

That’s the thing about first loves, man. They form you and can stay with you for the rest of your life.[to Malik]

So much of being a mom is about faking it, isn’t it? We don’t know what the hell we’re doing. Not when they’re young. Not when they’re older. So we fake it. We imitate what we think a mom should be.