Sophie Kinsella Quotes

Some things you just don't get over.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him... everytime.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery