The Love of My Life Quotes

“But there was always a negative space, a shadow on the sand. That is the way with loss: you can’t undo it, no matter what you have gained.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“When we have experienced more loss than is bearable, she says, we hold on to everything.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“when you’re that lost, your only anchors are the things people tell you.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“I don't know anything, other than that it's only when something's damaged beyond repair that we realize how beautiful it was.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of My Life

“This realm wasn’t ours. It belonged to the sea stars and limpets, the anemones and hermit crabs.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“I spot a glorious sunset through the landing window as I follow Mum up to see Dad; orange and bloodred layered on tired gray, with streaks of pink straight from an eighties disco.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“losses of that time in my life. It just left me vulnerable to losing the beautiful family I had now.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“It was sentimental, superstitious; utter stupidity. Keeping it didn’t connect me to the unbearable”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“About how, as we approach the end of our life, we find ourselves turning toward the things and people that are most meaningful to us so that we may face death with equanimity and courage.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“equanimity”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“Wouldn’t anyone make a clandestine visit, if they knew where their adopted child lived? I would.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of My Life

“I don’t believe in tunnels or white lights, but I do think there’s a moment when we just know we’re done, when we stop trying.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“There is no one on earth to whom I’m related by blood, I realize. Absolutely no one.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“It’s not exactly as I remembered, but that’s the thing with memory: it makes up its own stories. They harden and calcify in just the same way as facts, and most of the time we have no idea which is which.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“...it's only when something's damaged beyond repair that we realize how beautiful it was.

[LEO PHILBET]”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of My Life

“There won’t be a time in my life when the loss of his childhood feels acceptable.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“I invite you to think about an event in your past you’d do anything to erase.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“I don’t know anything, other than that it’s only when something’s damaged beyond repair that we realize how beautiful it was.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“his nerves, and so it has become the soundtrack”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of my Life

“I don’t know anything, other than that it’s only when something’s damaged beyond repair that we realise how beautiful it was.”
― Rosie Walsh, The Love of My Life