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.
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.
Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?
I questioned whether anyone would love me because I'm in a wheelchair.
I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.
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