Ghosted Quotes

“We are not just victims of our lives. We can choose to be happy.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call

“Nineteen years since that day. Nineteen whole years! And I’m still looking for you. I will never stop looking for you.

Often you appear when I expect it least. Earlier today I was trapped in some pointless dark thought or other, my body clenched like a metal fist. Then suddenly you were there: a bright autumn leaf cartwheeling over a dull pewter lawn. I uncurled and smelled life, felt dew on my feet, saw shades of green. I tried to grab hold of you, that vivid leaf, cavorting and wriggling and giggling. I tried to take your hand, look straight at you, but like an optical black spot you slid silently sideways, just out of reach.

I will never stop looking for you.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Nobody warns you that life continues to be complicated after you’ve Done the Right Thing. That there is no reward, beyond some intangible sense of moral fortitude.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“I wonder if he could hear the excitement careening around in my chest. A matter of days ago I’d been separated, approaching divorce, approaching 40. Then this. Him”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“I wondered how it was that you could spend weeks, months—years, even—just chugging on, nothing really changing, and then, in the space of a few hours, the script of your life could be completely rewritten.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Something was going to happen. Something had already happened. We both knew.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Why did nobody tell you that a broken heart wasn’t just a metaphor?”
― Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call

“Sometimes the elephant is just too big for the room”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Life is too short to run around after someone who makes you miserable.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“A lo mejor estás en todas partes. Esa es la posibilidad que más me gusta. Allí arriba, en las nubes teñidas de rosa. Aquí abajo, en la humedad del amanecer.
Allí donde voy, te busco. Y allí donde estoy, te veo.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Me encantaba que, al estar con un libro en la mano, sin la necesidad urgente de irme a otra parte o de hacer otra cosa, me sentía como una Sarah a la que había olvidado por completo”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“A silent phone brings out the very worst in us,” he said. “All of us.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Nikad nisam mislila da će mi nedostajati netko koga sam poznavala tek sedam dana, ali nedostaješ mi. Toliko da više ne znam što činim.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“We have a choice, I told her, the day we met. We are not just victims of our lives. We can choose to be happy. And yet I chose not to be happy, in spite of all I’d said.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“I’ve decided this must be what purgatory feels like. Perpetual postponement. Intense waiting in the key of fear minor. Nothing moving, other than the slow hands of a clock.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Then Eddie kissed me again and I felt it all dissolve. The sadness of the past, the uncertainty of the future. This was what was meant to happen next. This.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“I was sitting on the bench outside his barn, reading an old copy of Our Man in Havana from his shelf. It turned out that I still loved reading. I loved that a novelist on the payroll of MI6 had dreamed up a hapless vacuum-cleaner salesman, drafted into the Secret Intelligence Service so that he might better fund the extravagant lifestyle of his beautiful daughter. I loved that I could read about this man for hours and never once pause to overthink my own life. I loved that, with a book in my hand and no urgent need to be anywhere, or to be doing anything, I felt like a Sarah I’d entirely forgotten.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“But if I had my time again, I would not have given up,” Granddad said. “I don’t believe that love is meant to be like an explosion. It is not meant to be dramatic, or ravenous, or any of the silly words ascribed by writers and musicians. But I do believe that when you know, you know. And I knew, and I let it go without any real sort of fight, and I will never forgive myself that.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Me parece increíble que vaya a traer más vidas a este mundo. Que este sea un milagro común y corriente para ella.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Tenemos la capacidad de decidir", le aseguré a Sarah el día que nos conocimos. No somos meras víctimas de nuestra vida. Podemos elegir la felicidad. Pero, a pesar de todo lo que le dije, yo no la elegí. Rechacé a Sarah Harrington y aquello tan especial y único que había surgido entre nosotros, y elegí el deber. Una existencia vivida solo a medias.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Nadie te advierte que la vida seguirá siendo complicada después de hacer lo correcto. Que no hay recompensa, más allá de una sensación intangible de fortaleza moral.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“En mi opinión, todo el mundo tiene la capacidad de decidir sobre todos los aspectos de su vida, en mayor o menor grado... Lo que hacemos, lo que sentimos, lo que decimos. Por algún motivo, está muy extendida la idea de que no tenemos elección. Sobre nada. El trabajo, las relaciones, la felicidad. Todo está fuera de nuestro control... A veces resulta desesperante ver que todos se quejan de sus problemas sin querer hablar de soluciones. Que se creen víctimas de otras personas, de sí mismos, del mundo.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“wondered how it was that you could spend weeks, months—years, even—just chugging on, nothing really changing, and then, in the space of a few hours, the script of your life could be completely rewritten.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“I loved that, with a book in my hand and no urgent need to be anywhere, or to be doing anything, I felt like a Sarah I’d entirely forgotten.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“..you just marched into my life, as if you'd been waiting in the wings for a cue.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“I loved that I could read about this man for hours and never once pause to overthink my own life.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“If there was any point to becoming an adult, it eluded me today. Who wouldn’t prefer to be killing cabbages and talking in a Russian accent? Who wouldn’t prefer to have had their breakfast made and their outfit chosen, when the alternative was malignant despair”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Nobody warns you that life continues to be complicated after you’ve Done the Right Thing. That there is no reward, beyond some intangible sense of moral fortitude”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“Maybe you're everywhere. I like that idea most. Up there in the pink-flushed clouds. Down here in the dampness of daybreak. Wherever I go, I look for you. And wherever I am, I see you.”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted

“We can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. Alain de Botton Essays in Love”
― Rosie Walsh, Ghosted