Postscript Quotes

“That is no doubt how the story ought to end, with the seals and the stars, explanation, resignation, reconciliation, everything picked up into some radiant bland ambiguous higher significance, in calm of mind, all passion spent. However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after; so I thought I might continue the tale a little longer in the form once again of a diary, though I suppose that, if this is a book, it will have to end, arbitrarily enough no doubt, in quite a short while.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“The beauty and challenge of long-term relationships is that you change and shift at different times in different directions, side by side under the same roof. Most often, these changes are subtle and you’re subconsciously adapting all the time to the constant but gentle shifting of another human being that you’re so connected to; like two shape-shifters battling to coincide, for better or worse. Remain who you are while they alter, or change with them. Inspire them to go in another direction, gently push, pull, mould, tear at, nurture. Wait.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Mourners are silent but their pain is not. The wound may be internal, but you can hear it, you can see it, you can feel it. Heartbreak is carried around bodies like an invisible cloak; it adds a load, it dims eyes, it slows strides.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Maybe that’s why people come to graveyards. For more goodbyes.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“You didn’t do anything wrong, things happened, and it’s not your fault.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“But they will remember you. They’ll remember you every second of every day. They won’t be able to stop remembering you. Everything they say, everything they smell, taste, hear, absolutely everything in their lives is linked to you. In a way, you will haunt them. You will be constantly in their thoughts even when they don’t want you there, because they’ll need you gone so that they can get through, and then there are days when they’ll need you there in order for them to get through.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“When he died, a piece of me did die, but a part of me was born too.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“People can surprise you when you suffer through grief. It’s not true that you discover who your friends are, but it’s true to say that their characters are revealed.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Everyone seems to be afraid you’ll lose yourself, but you should consider it being him you lose as a result of doing it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Love is a tenuous, rarefied thing. Something to be prized and cherished, displayed for all to see, not hidden away in a cupboard, or to feel ashamed of.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“Look, it’s fine with me. She’s your daughter, I’m happy for you that this is happening, I know it’s important to you. as long as you know what you’re getting yourself into.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“He leaves the flat and I don’t see him for two days.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

“You can only lose what you cling to.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript