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Category: Rosamund Lupton

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 these disturbing people inhabit, unwittingly drawing them closer until they extinguish the very flame they were drawn to.

obsession, stalker, weirdos

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 inhabit.

language, optimism

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.

guilt, mental-health, self-assessment, self-esteem

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 loneliness she’d felt after her mother died, or even an adult version of it, but something different and more punishing.

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…

death, family-relationships, love, loved-ones, rosamund-lupton, sister

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 be a different person. … Living my life. And it wouldn’t be my grief for you that toppled the mountain, but love.

love, self-discovery

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 applied that it might snap off and ruin someone’s carpet, rather than realizing that you’d made color itself tactile.

art, color, paint

Rosamund Lupton

…grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. …It can’t be contained in hours or days or minutes.

grief, missing, rosamund-lupton, sister

Rosamund Lupton

An explosion in space makes no sound at all.

grief, mourning

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….

bereavement, grief, love, rememberance

Rosamund Lupton

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

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.