Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart - oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape - of your sister.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep love and remembrance between sisters, emphasizing an unbreakable bond.
Katherine Mansfield's quote reflects the profound emotional connection between sisters, suggesting that love and remembrance are enduring and intimate. The imagery of being 'tucked so close in the heart' conveys a sense of comfort and security, highlighting how such relationships are central to our lives and hard to escape from, even in absence.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a sister's wedding speech to highlight the enduring bond between siblings.
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.
{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.
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