A Song Inside Quotes

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Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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

Gill Mann
“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