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The Dressmaker's Gift
Fiona Valpy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“So, if we cling on to life so hard and value it so much, how deep do depression and despair have to drag someone before they reach a place where they can’t bear to go on?”
“For most of my life, I have dwelt in a sort of no man’s land where loneliness has been an easier option than trying to fit in.”
“It is the loss of those you love that is unbearable.”
“I see now that it’s one of the paradoxes of life that if we love it so much that we are frightened of losing it, it can make us live a half-life, too scared to get out there and live whole-heartedly because we have too much to lose. In the same way, I think I protect myself in relationships, too scared to love whole-heartedly because then there would be too much to lose there too.”
“Until now, I have allowed the legacy of trauma to imprison my spirit.”
“So, if we cling on to life so hard and value it so much, how deep do depression and despair have to drag someone before they reach a place where they can’t bear to go on? It”
“And it dawns on me that perhaps there are very many different ways to keep someone alive in your heart.”
“You can’t let terror win. It becomes all the more important to resist the urge to give in to fear.”
“When that photograph was taken, those three young women – full of hopes and dreams – had their lives ahead of them. It seems to me that they epitomise a love for life. They weren’t to know, on that May morning, just how far that love was going to be tested. And then I think of my mother. How deep do depression and despair have to drag a person until, at last, they reach a place where they can’t bear to go on? Claire and Vivi showed how much the human spirit can endure: brutality, cruelty, inhumanity – all of these can be borne. It is the loss of those you love that is unbearable.”
“What is this world where human beings can be the perpetrators of such inhumanity against their own kind?”
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