And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.

— Rosamund Lupton

An explosion in space makes no sound at all.

— Rosamund Lupton

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

— Rosamund Lupton

But, astonishingly, I'm not broken. I'm not destroyed. Terrified witless, shaking, retching with fear, yes. But no longer insecure. Because during my search for how you died, I somehow found myself to be a different person. ... Living my life. And it wouldn't be my grief for you that toppled the mountain, but love.

— Rosamund Lupton

But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

— Rosamund Lupton

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

— Rosamund Lupton

For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I've since found out it's common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition units in our brain being too heated and too easily triggered. This cruel trick of the mind lasted only a few moments, but was long enough to feel with physical force how much I needed you.

— Rosamund Lupton

For years, I had a fantasy of a happy-ever-after ending. The first night I spent at the university my fantasy ended, because I thought a happy-ever-after was pointless. Because with my father I didn't want to hope for a happy ending but to have had a happy beginning. I wanted to have been looked after by Daddy in childhood, not finding resolution with my father as an adult.

— Rosamund Lupton

...grief is loved turned into an eternal missing. ... It can't be contained in hours or days or minutes.

— Rosamund Lupton

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing

— Rosamund Lupton