Georgina Lees > Quotes

“He got to know me, but really know me – not just my favourite flowers or film, but who I am.”
― Georgina Lees, The Girl Upstairs

“Memories bite like this occasionally and I know I should smile, laugh at them, but they are little pockets of time that we’ll never have again and that’s what makes them so painful, not just the moments when it was good, but the moments I can never change. They make me feel helpless.”
― Georgina Lees, The Girl Upstairs

“I just know that loss is the worst kind of pain, and it took me a really long time to stop punishing myself. People saying, “It’s not your fault” doesn’t even make a mark on how much guilt you feel for something over which you had no control. What if I had been in the car and she had been sitting in a different seat, what if it had been raining and the trip had been cancelled, what if I’d surprised her with our own weekend away… I just know one thing: no one, not a single soul, could ever have talked me out of those feelings. I just needed to ride them, I needed to be consumed by them, endure them, and then one day wake up and feel sad, so painfully sad that I didn’t want to live anymore – but not guilty.”
― Georgina Lees, The Girl Upstairs