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1 " ...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
2 " 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
3 " Me parece increíble que vaya a traer más vidas a este mundo. Que este sea un milagro común y corriente para ella. "
4 " 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.” He closed his eyes. "
― Rosie Walsh
5 " 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. "
6 " We are not just victims of our lives. We can choose to be happy. "
7 " 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 "
8 " Something was going to happen. Something had already happened. We both knew. "
9 " 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. "
10 " 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. "
11 " Life is too short to run around after someone who makes you miserable. "
12 " Sometimes the elephant is just too big for the room "
13 " Why did nobody tell you that a broken heart wasn’t just a metaphor? "
14 " 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. "
15 " Nikad nisam mislila da će mi nedostajati netko koga sam poznavala tek sedam dana, ali nedostaješ mi. Toliko da više ne znam što činim. "
16 " 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. "
17 " 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. "
18 " 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 "
19 " A silent phone brings out the very worst in us,” he said. “All of us. "
20 " I laughed, and he kissed my nose, and I wonder how it was that you could spend weeks, months — years, even — just chugging on, nothing really changing, abs then, in the space of a few hours, the script of your life could be completely rewritten. "
