For When I'm Gone Quotes

“My body is a road map of my life.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“By and large most people in the world want the same things. To know their children are safe. To earn enough, doing a job they don’t hate. To love and be loved.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“Sometimes love looks like cuddles and soft words, but equally often it’s shown through anxiety and admonishments.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“Make good choices. Don’t be reckless. Floss. Be as moderate as your irrepressible, sparkling nature allows.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“Know this. The worst thing about this wretched illness, of which there have been so many terrible things, is saying goodbye to you and Megan before it was time.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“You always kept me on my toes, but you also made everything exciting. An adventure. Your joy for the things you liked easily matched your antipathy towards those you didn’t.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“In my own truncated life I learned too late that cynicism gets you nowhere.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“remember to trust in love. To live and manifest it, as you once taught me how to do. Life can be dreadfully confusing and painful. Trying to figure it out, to understand it all, can feel futile. But loving is easy. You can do that every day.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“The relationships we have with our siblings are perhaps the most important of our lives. They continue to shape us as we get older, much as we might try to convince ourselves they don’t.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“Don’t stop reading books as your responsibilities inevitably mount up. Remember the particular magic of disappearing into another world, the shift of perspective it affords.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“don’t ever let other people define you. Their opinion doesn’t matter.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“You’re lucky to have the father you do. He gave me a life that I never thought I could have and showed me the value of everyday joy. Of trusting yourself and not looking for drama.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“A happy sadness. The anticipatory nostalgia of knowing you were going to grow up, that I couldn’t inhabit that moment forever.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“You taught me so much about how to approach life. How to get the best out of it. And although I didn’t seek it out, becoming your mother was the single best thing I ever did.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“Mistakes happen, but sometimes, my love, they can turn out to be the making of us.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“It’s just so hard, isn’t it? Life. All of it. Confusing, messy, wonderful. It always feels like you’re working towards something, but now I understand that’s not really true. I”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“now appreciate that ‘good enough’ is just that.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“you offered up a masterclass in the ambiguities of motherhood. When you first go home from hospital with a bundle to keep alive through the night, it’s terrifying, yet also straightforward. Looking after them well becomes so much more complicated as the years go by.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“You showed me that we are responsible for ourselves. The importance of work and fun. Of just getting on with it.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“You belonged somewhere else, you followed your own destiny. It’s just taken me until now to see that clearly.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“It will probably always be hard,’ said the older man. ‘But it does get easier. Not so all-consuming.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“Life is hard, but unless we can share it with other people, it’s pointless.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“I hold the memory close now, a comfort, as I come to the end. No barriers, just light, warmth, tenderness. We talked about Mum and Dad, those summers outside, the history nobody but us could ever know. Your hands in mine, your face opposite, so like my own, a mirror to my better self.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“There are intervals of relief, when I’m truly in the present, making the most of whatever I have left. But at night, the loneliness rolls in. The fear. I try to be brave but I’m just so scared, Tessy. I’m leaving when I still had so much to do.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“You’re the key to a certain version of me, the original and perhaps the truest.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“It was just shorthand for our history, what we’d shared.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“I took your devotion entirely for granted. There were so many things that belonged only to us.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“this was how it was going to be now. She would be unseen. Unregarded. The invisible woman.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“If you get the chance of happiness with someone else, please take it. Grab it hard and hold it close. Don’t worry what anyone else says, know you have my blessing. You deserve it, my darling. You deserve everything good.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone

“There’s so much I assumed I’d still have time to say.”
― Rebecca Ley, For When I'm Gone