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Rosamund Lupton Quotes

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing

Rosamund Lupton
Grief, Missing, Eternal

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
Self Esteem, Style, Portraits

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . .

Rosamund Lupton
Thinking Of You, Laughter, Giving
Rosamund Lupton (2010). “Sister”, p.7, Hachette UK

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.

Rosamund Lupton
Christian, Jobs, Essence
Rosamund Lupton (2010). “Sister”, p.101, Hachette UK

But 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
Grief, Unrequited Love, Long

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.

Rosamund Lupton
Someone You Love, One You Love, Dies
Rosamund Lupton (2010). “Sister”, p.44, Hachette UK

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
Attitude, Track, Guilt
Rosamund Lupton (2010). “Sister”, p.97, Hachette UK

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

Rosamund Lupton
Atheist, Children, Taken
Rosamund Lupton (2011). “Afterwards”, p.187, Hachette UK

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

Rosamund Lupton
Hurt, Selfish, Love Someone

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 adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. 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
Mother, Children, Father

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.

Rosamund Lupton
Crush, Optimistic, Negativity

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.

Rosamund Lupton
Teenage, Independent, Bird

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