Top 51 Rosamund Lupton Quotes
#1. I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
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#2. Because I'd rather feel guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear.
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#4. And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realized - and still loved me.
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#5. I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.
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#6. Sex and laughter. The heart and lungs of a relationship.
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#7. Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.
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#8. Joie de vivre. Joy and life together. It's such an ironically perfect description of you.
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#9. Been united by superficial tendrils of the small and the mundane, but the enormous fact of your death was ripping each fragile connection. I said
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#10. A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.
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#11. I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
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#12. A siren is the sound of the twenty-first-century cavalry on the way.
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#13. It makes the other one more precious and also not enough. We have to try to fill not only our own boots but other people's too - yours, Leo's, Dad's. We have to expand at the moment we feel the most shrunk.
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#14. Because I'd rather fell guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear - Tess's Mother
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#15. There is no new beginning. No second chance.
You turned to me and I wasn't there.
You are dead. If I had taken your call, you would be alive.
It's as blunt as that.
I'm sorry.
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#16. Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.
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#17. Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.
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#19. Can you get a summer snow-globe instead of a winter one with green grass and flowering azalea bushes and blue sky? Because I'm here, inside it. If you shake it, perhaps it fills with black smoke, not swirling snowflakes.
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#20. Mums answer is so unexpected and I am a litte stunned, actually. I wonder whether, had I known the reason for my name as a child, I would have tried to live up to it. Instead of being a failed Arabella, I might have become a Shakespearean plucky Beatrice.
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#21. I've always been intimidated by handsome men, let alone beautiful ones. I associate them not so much with inevitable rejection as with turning me completely invisible.
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#22. ...death does leave a daunting array of practical tasks: all those possessions that you were forced to leave behind had to be sorted and packed and redistributed in the living world.
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#23. You told me once that the last of the senses to go is hearing. But you're wrong. The last of the senses to go is love.
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#24. A child's body is so much a part of who they are; maybe because we can hold a little boy in our arms. We can hold the whole of him. But when we grow too large to be held our body no longer defines us
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#25. As I waited, I flicked through a magazine in a futile bid to look occupied. It had the next month's date on the cover and I remembered you laughing at time-traveling fashion mags, saying the date on the cover should alert people to their absurdity inside.
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#26. I reminded you I studied literature, didn't I? I've had an endless supply of quotations at my disposal, but they had always highlighted the inadequacy of my life rather than providing an uplifting literary score to it.
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#28. Walking out of an A level paper isn't funny."
"It's not that I'm laughing at."
"So what is it?"
"No one ever tells you when you're doing all that course work and revision and timed essays and study skills that it's an option."
"But it isn't an option."
"It is, because I just took it.
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#29. It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.
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#30. Bubonic plague is 'natural,' I snapped back. Doesn't mean it's good for you.
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#31. Sex & Humour Are The Heart & Lungs Of A Good Relationship
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#32. Things are embarrassing, best to avoid them. But since your death I prefer a naturalist style of conversation. Let's strip it down to what matters. Let's have emotions and beliefs on show without the modest covering of small talk.
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#33. But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
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#34. trolley with Jenny's body on it was wheeled past us, surrounded
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#35. Instead of imagining the frightening and the ugly, I will try to find the beautiful in everyday things.
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#36. I threw everything we had together - the strong roots and stems and leaves and beautiful soft blossoms of sisterhood - into the earth with you. And I was left standing on the edge, so diminished by the loss that I thought I could no longer be there.
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#37. Scrap the UN," you'd said once. "Warring countries should just get a teenage daughter in the room.
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#38. And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.
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#40. Mum handed me back my engagement ring and I slipped it on. I found the weight of it around my finger comforting, as it Todd was holding my hand.
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#41. Motherhood isn't soft and cozy and sweet; it's selfish ferocity, red in tooth and claw.
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#42. Our mind is who we are; it's where we feel and think and believe. It's where we have love and faith and hate and passion.
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#43. The gastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.
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#44. I'm only just discovering that how someone behaves in everyday life gives no clue how they'll be when it counts.
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#45. Sex and humor are the heart and lungs of a good relationship
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#47. Sleep, baby, sleep
Your father tends the sheep
Your mother shakes the dreamland tree
And from it fall sweet dreams of thee
Sleep, baby, sleep.
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#48. All I was allowed to keep for myself was missing you. Which is what? The tears that pricked the inside of my face, the emotion catching at the top of my throat, the cavity in my chest that was larger than I am. Was that all I had now?
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#49. My job isn't to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.
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#50. Grief is loved turned into an eternal missing ... It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes.
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#51. I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.
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