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?
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