69 Quotes by Susan Fletcher

I have learnt that nothing stays the same. Today might seem the same as yesterday but no day ever is; we may want no changes to ever come, but changes do, in time. They cannot be helped; it is how the world turns.

Of course I remember. I remember my aching back and the drizzle, and the throb of my piercing in the top of my ear. I’d left university because of him. I’d learnt that I didn’t want to be anywhere he wasn’t, that I physically couldn’t stand it. I was eighteen; he was in his early thirties. I came up the lane and found him standing there, under the limes, wearing blue.

I know this: there is no sense to grief. There is no pattern or shape or texture, and there are no books or stories which can lessen the pain at losing a person you have loved, and will always love. There are no rules, with loss.

Rona of the hurting heart. We’ve all had one of those. We have all picked at the seal of things that have been closed against us, and locked.

I hoarded all the stories that reflected the light and dazzled me.

Isn’t it the rarest thing? Never mind the whale migrations, or total eclipses of suns and moons: love that lasts, and is returned in equal measure, is the rarest thing she knows of.

There is not one wide happiness that reaches us all at the same time.

You’re the one who taught me that there is truth below the surface of tales. That we can learn courage from them. That they can teach us how to live our lives.

She never choose anything except her husband, her motherhood and her trust in God. The rest of it was put upon her and she bears it and does her best.