Watch Over Me Quotes

“I went to the kitchen and unburied my treasure. Twenty-five-year-old Lagavullin. Drinking it is like a long, lingering, passionate kiss. Fire and wind and peat and sea, all mixed together.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“It was like when he was born, the greatest happiness I’ve ever known.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“couldn’t help it. I thought, if it’s the last thing I do, I’ll hold my son one last time. And I did, I held him in my arms again, as my body held on to itself for a brief second before dissolving again.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“believe we all only love once. Except sometimes, the one we are meant to love is not the one we think. Sometimes we lose someone, we think our life is over and we get frozen in the moment of despair. But it can turn out that, in spite of all that anguish, our true soulmate is actually still out there. Life can give us another chance – once the one we thought was our soulmate is gone, the real one comes along.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“that love never dies and that what awaits us is the love we felt when we were alive. That beyond the fear and pain, love is there to catch us when we fall.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“How could we, even for a second, face what really happened – the way someone was there and then she was not, gone forever, gone into non-existence – without falling on our knees and screaming in terror, thinking one day it will happen to us, that we’ll close our eyes and never open them again? How can we ever be so brave as to gaze into the deep, senseless darkness that awaits us and still keep on living? If darkness is what awaits us. Because I know now that it isn’t.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“And when somebody dies, the family can mercifully occupy their minds with all the heartbreaking little things we need to do when it’s all finished – the flowers, the food, what needs to be put away, what needs to be given away – while tears fall on the objects left behind: a pair of slippers, a mug, a dressing gown. We comfort each other, holding on to a solid arm, clinging to a warm hand where the blood flows strong, we feel it underneath the skin and it sings so loud, so clear, that it banishes death away.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“It makes no sense to live a lie because when we die, and it always happens sooner than we think, our one and only chance to love is gone.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“Strange how people seem to want to decide what’s wrong and what’s right for everybody else.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“When you let go of hope, you have nothing.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“So much of our world is defined by our parents being alive, a barrier between ourselves and our turn to die. When our parents go, there’s no more protection. We are on our own, exposed.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“love never dies and that what awaits us is the love we felt when we were alive. That beyond the fear and pain, love is there to catch us when we fall.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“It’s a fundamental need for us all, the physical proximity of someone we love. Without it, it’s a terribly, terribly cold existence. Enough to make you wither and wilt like a plant without water.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me

“Christmas, how I was dreading going back.”
― Daniela Sacerdoti, Watch Over Me