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Loved and Missed

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These lyrics from a Lonestar song about missing someone who passed away perfectly convey what it’s like to hold onto the memories of someone you love. Ways to Say ‘You’ll Always Be Remembered’ on a Headstone or Plaque Nobody likes saying goodbye, especially when it’s a final goodbye. So a quote like this one by Gandhi can be a perfect option for a headstone epitaph. 23. “Too well loved to ever be forgotten.” This beautiful tale of love, courage and compassion … captures the pain of estrangement in penetrating, haunting language…. Loved and Missed is a complex, deeply moving novel about frailty and suffering. Despite all the sadness, hope remains.”—Martin Chilton, Independent In Susie Boyt’s seventh novel, a grandmother gives her daughter an envelope of cash in exchange for her baby. This can’t end well, you think to yourself. But Loved and Missed isn’t about a battle over an infant; there is no tug of love or grand stand-off. Instead, the book is an acute, enormously moving study of familial love, and how the bonds between a mother and child can rupture, sometimes inexplicably. It's hard saying goodbye to somebody who has made such an impact in our life, but it's comforting knowing that even though they aren't with us physically anymore, we carry them with us wherever we go.”

Rest in peace my dearest mother. Your memory will live on after you and be with me, and others, forever When you remember someone who’s passed away, it can feel like a piece of you has gone with them, too. 8. “I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest. You to me were true. You to me were the best.” - Bob Dylan Here we present the very best In Loving Memory Quotes to help you honor your loved one. When someone you care about dies, it’s so easy to feel like you have so much to say but no words to say it. You can use this brief message for a person who surrounded themselves with love and loved people with all their heart. 25. “Loved with a love beyond telling. Missed with a grief beyond all tears.” This beautiful tale of love, courage and compassion...captures the pain of estrangement in penetrating, haunting language... Loved and Missed is a complex, deeply moving novel about frailty and suffering. Despite all the sadness, hope remains

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Sometimes I thought the more Eleanor evaded and erased me the more I needed her. There were sharp ambushes when her absence hit me sternly. When I heard torch songs on the car radio—anthems about the seamy side of love, its injustices, misunderstandings, betrayals, the endless waiting—I often pictured her not thinking about me. Neglect your children and they will be obsessed with you for life—I read that once—but what about when they neglected you?

Boyt is both funny...and poignant...but never less than impeccably truthful, with a broad, oft breathtaking wisdom Boyt's novel is compelling-and invites our compassion for those who may not always earn it, but still deserve it When London schoolteacher Ruth learns that her daughter, Eleanor, is pregnant, the two are sharing a meager Christmas dinner on a park bench. Eleanor is years into debilitating addiction, living on and off the streets with her baby's father, Ben, but Ruth pushes past Eleanor's resistance to offer help when Lily is born—holding vigil as the newborn goes through withdrawal in the hospital, taking control of the baptism as Eleanor and Ben keep wandering off, regularly stopping by their apartment to make sure they’re eating. When Ruth finds an unresponsive person in Eleanor’s apartment—ostensibly an overdose—she flees with Lily, anticipating a fight for custody that never comes. The years pass swiftly, almost perfunctorily, as Lily grows into a kind, strong-willed, and precocious child, “someone who knows life is a serious business, perhaps a few years before she might,” as Ruth's friend describes her. The pacing matches Ruth’s own matter-of-factness: Her outsize shame leaves little berth for wallowing, and her self-deprecating wit resists maudlin sentimentality. (The greatest source of comic relief comes from Jean Reynolds, Ruth’s co-worker, whose brashness and loyalty make her impossible not to love.) Through intimate first-person narration, Ruth balances the pain of losing a daughter against the hope of a second chance. Her relationship with Lily brings a cautious joy. Ruth can’t look at the girl without seeing the trail of maternal pain that originated with her own mother, who drank disinfectant after Ruth’s father left, and led to Lily’s miraculous birth. Love can go awry—see the double meaning of the title, which Lily discovers on a tombstone: “It kind of sounds like the person tried to be loving but…the aim was wrong”—but can that misdirection be righted? Though Lily isn’t immune from trauma—this is clear when her perspective abruptly takes over in the final third of the book—she is propped up by the strength of Ruth’s devotion.

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When Rachel Cusk published her memoir A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother in 2001, the tenor of the conversation shifted from monstrous children to the everyday but not less fraught realm of raising any child. Cusk wrote openly—and now famously—about the irreconcilable internal divisions of motherhood. “When she,” meaning any mother, “is with them she is not herself; when she is without them she is not herself; and so it is as difficult to leave your children as it is to stay with them. To discover this is to feel that your life has become irretrievably mired in conflict, or caught in some mythic snare in which you will perpetually, vainly struggle.” Struggle became, finally, not just the defining emotion of parenting, but also the most public. Feelings of love don’t go away when someone passes. You can let the person’s family know that their loved one is in your heart forever. 2. “Your life was a blessing; your memory, a treasure.” Examining the limits, disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, this marvellously absorbing novel, full of insight and compassion, delights as much as it disturbs.

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