Rosamund Lupton

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . .”