The Letter Quotes

“Now there are only fragments left, memories disintegrating like autumn leaves and answers always tantalisingly out of reach. The “if onlys” are the saddest things in the world.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“We look for sense and we search for patterns or a grand design in the desperate attempt to make meaning out of what frightens us the most – the possibility that there is no meaning. Bad things happen to good people. Evil prospers. Young fit men get sick and die. Children starve. Teenagers are murdered in bomb blasts at music concerts. There is no reason or divine plan. Crap things happen. End of.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“Sometimes the thing we long for the most is where we least expect it to be, there all along and simply waiting for us to recognise it.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“The road can fork at any point. There are so many possibilities, aren’t there, and so many ‘what ifs’,”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“I think love comes in many different forms and I believe we can love more than once in our lifetime too.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“Nothing happens by mistake, sweetheart, but by design. It’s just a matter of how we look at things.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“I think we all make our mark in some way. OK, not everyone changes the world by landing on the moon or creating great works of literature, but we all make a difference.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“things might hurt now, but at least I can feel).”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“I contemplate the strange nature of grief. Some people hide from it, others devote their entire lives to mourning, and the bravest get on with living. I’m not sure what category I fall into yet.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“I think we all make our mark in some way. OK, not everyone changes the world by landing on the moon or creating great works of literature but we all make a difference. And what’s the world anyway, except our experience of it? How do we know that a kind word or smile doesn’t alter the course of somebody else’s history? What seems small to us can be huge to another person. I think the thing I enjoy most about history is trying to uncover the small acts and the little details that make a bigger picture.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“Rosecraddick.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“I realise that what seems to matter so much to us in the here and now is nothing in comparison to the sea and the rocks and the turning of the tides; we’re just tiny grains in the sands of time.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“up at the ancient buildings built of pale Cotswold limestone and dusted with lichen. Latticed windows wink and sparkle, grey rooftops meet the bright blue sky, and more bicycles than”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“At that age they glow with a potential they won’t understand or even know they possess until it’s gone and too late.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“a new Chloe is going to take shape. I don’t know her yet but it’s time I made her acquaintance.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“Love has no limits. Love isn’t bound by time. And, ultimately, love is why we are all here today and why we carry on.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter