The Story of a Heart Quotes

“The crushing realisation that someone you love so unconditionally is suffering and you can’t stop it is terrible.”
― Rachel Clarke, The Story of a Heart

“No other part of the human body comes close to matching the metaphorical richness of the human heart. Hearts sing, soar, race, burn, break, bleed, swell, hammer and melt. They can be won or lost, cut or trampled, and hewn from oak or stone or gold. They have a temperature – warm or cold – and can be squeezed, can sink or be thrown away. They are vessels filled not only with blood, but with our sorrows, hopes and fears.”
― Rachel Clarke, The Story of a Heart

“no matter how little time a person has left – or even if their death defies the ongoing beat of their heart – a human being still has value. A human being still deserves our love and care. If we live on past our deaths in the minds of those who love us – and isn’t this the only kind of legacy, in the end, that counts?”
― Rachel Clarke, The Story of a Heart

“Grief, as nurses know better than anyone, is the form love takes when someone dies. Perhaps grief hurts as much as it ought to – as much and as fiercely as the person who has died was loved.”
― Rachel Clarke, The Story of a Heart

“they know precisely what these rituals signify. You are loved. You mattered then, and you matter now, and you will matter always, for ever.”
― Rachel Clarke, The Story of a Heart

“Ordinary life, lazily unspooling,”
― Rachel Clarke, The Story of a Heart