Bubonic plague is 'natural,' I snapped back. Doesn't mean it's good for you.
Rosamund LuptonIt'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.
Rosamund LuptonBecause I'd rather feel guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear.
Rosamund LuptonI 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.
Rosamund LuptonWas the feeling that all is right with the world, my world, because your were its foundations, formed in childhood and with me grown into adulthod -- was that to replaced by nothing? The ghastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.
Rosamund LuptonGrief is love turned into an eternal missing.
Rosamund LuptonHowever hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...
Rosamund LuptonTags: love death family-relationships loved-ones sister rosamund-lupton
You were right. As you know. Other people may sail through lives of blue seas, with only the occasional squall, but for me life has always been a mountain--sheer faced and perilous. And, as I think I told you, I had clung on with the footholds and crampons and safety ropes of a safe job and flat and secure relationship.
Rosamund LuptonI 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 these disturbing people inhabit, unwittingly drawing them closer until they extinguish the very flame they were drawn to.
Rosamund LuptonTags: obsession stalker weirdos
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.
Tags: death-of-a-loved-one
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