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Sister quotes about love
However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels…
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn’t return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels…
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
My job isn’t to go around judging people. Priests are meant to teach love and forgiveness. That to me is the essence of being a Christian. And trying to find that love and forgiveness in ourselves and others every day should be a challenge that we want to achieve.
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
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, Sister
Our mind is who we are; it’s where we feel and think and believe. It’s where we have love and hate and faith and passion.’ I was getting a little embarrassed by your earnestness but you continued, ‘How can someone hope to treat another person’s mind unless they are also a theologian and a philosopher and a poet?
— Rosamund Lupton, Sister
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, Sister
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, Sister
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