“ I wanted to make him understand that we shared the details of our lives, because they were the threads that braided us so closely together. And you would have been certain to tell me about a Sabatier… Rosamund Lupton
“ 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. Rosamund Lupton
“ Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.... Rosamund Lupton
“ I don't believe outstandingly beautiful and charismatic women create obsession in what would otherwise be normal men, but rather they attract the weirdos and the stalkers; flames in the darkness that… Rosamund Lupton
“ However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels... Rosamund Lupton
“ For years I had a fantasy of a happy-ever-after ending. The first night I spent at the university my fantasy ended, because I thought a happy-ever-after was pointless. Because with my father I didn't… Rosamund Lupton
“ 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. Rosamund Lupton
“ ...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ...It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes. Rosamund Lupton
“ 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 s… Rosamund Lupton
“ Your paintings are staggeringly beautiful. Did I ever tell you that,or was I just too concerned that you weren't going to earn a living? I know the answer...I worried that the paint was so thickly app… Rosamund Lupton
“ 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. Rosamund Lupton
“ 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 lif… Rosamund Lupton
“ When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adoles… Rosamund Lupton
“ But, astonishingly, I'm not broken. I'm not destroyed. Terrified witless, shaking, retching with fear, yes. But no longer insecure. Because during my search for how you died, I somehow found myself to… Rosamund Lupton
“ But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives. Rosamund Lupton
“ 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 inh… Rosamund Lupton
“ She'd been cross so much of the time and often about small things. Looking back at herself, she thought that her crossness was like a shapeless overcoat, covering loneliness, and it wasn't the old lon… Rosamund Lupton
