Gill Mann > Quotes

“Sadness seems to come in waves. Big rolling waves. I have no choice but to ride them.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I am glad to have had yesterday with its pain and joy. I am glad to have been able to feel it all.”
― Gill Mann

“I feel a sharp stab of regret as I remember that I can’t share anything with him anymore.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I feel a hardness developing
around the softer parts
of me, something brittle
that won't let me cry. I don't
want to be brittle
but I don't want to feel
the pain either.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I want the sky to dim and the birds to fall silent. I want leaves to wither and fall to the ground. I want the world to acknowledge that everything has changed. Forever.”
― Gill Mann

“Although life takes away it also continues
to give, if only we can allow it to.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I want to push it all away into a closed-off part of my mind where it can no longer trouble me.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“Things do still touch me. It surprises me, this capacity within me still to see and feel the beauty in life. I would have expected it to be snuffed out by sorrow.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“Now I know that lives tear too. Can they be re-sewn, re-configured, sides to middle, new strength found? Even if they can, I know I will always feel the tell-tale ridge down the centre, at the heart of me.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“Silence falls for a moment. And then the evening continues, as it must.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I feel him in it; in the dappled sunlight dancing on the bed; in the branches swaying outside my bedroom window; in the leaves trembling in the breeze.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“That's where I am now, caught between past and future.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I'm not ready to let 2014 go. It feels like letting Sam go. Yet I know that I have no choice. It's another day I don't know how to get through.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“You are a song inside me now.
A melody that stirs or bursts
into life when I think of you.
I carry the pulse of you
within me.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“No one is there to require anything of me. I sit with my thoughts and, in my stillness, I become invisible...”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“Even in the pitch of night, I knew the light would come.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I feel guilt and anger slip away as swiftly as the equatorial sun. And in their place comes sorrow.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“Life was never dull when you were around. It's going to be so quiet without you.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I know there is nothing to be gained in accumulating sticks with which to beat myself.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I have felt you in tumbling clouds, above my head, in early morning sunlight dancing on the bed.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss

“I am glad to have had yesterday with its pain
and joy. I am glad to have been able to feel it all.”
― Gill Mann, A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss