55 Quotes by Rosamund Lupton

She pans life for gold and finds it daily.

Already you were going into the past. People think it’s reassuring to say “life carries on”; don’t they understand that it’s the fact your life carries on, while the person you love’s does not, that is one of the acute anguishes of grief?

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.

Bubonic plague is ‘natural,’ I snapped back. Doesn’t mean it’s good for you.

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 want to hope for a happy ending but to have had a happy beginning. I wanted to have been looked after by Daddy in childhood, not finding resolution with my father as an adult.

Was 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.

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.

I’m only just discovering that how someone behaves in everyday life gives no clue how they’ll be when it counts.

I felt caged with loneliness.