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.
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.
Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you.
There was a fine line between love and hate you heard that cliche all the time. But no one told you that the moment you crossed it would be the one you least expected. You'd fall in love and crack open a secret door to let your soul mate in. You just never expected such closeness one day to feel like an intrusion.
I choose faithfulness...Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will not question my love. And my children will never fear that they father will not come home.
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