She talks about old age and death as familiarly as she does about her friends or her children. She has never got over the loss of Bev, she says, and never will. “I still miss him so much it’s ridiculous. People say it gets better but it doesn’t. It just gets different, that’s all.” The other night she dreamt about him. “Even in my dream I kept saying to him, ‘You are dead. You can’t be here.’” And just a few weeks ago she found herself filming in Oxford. “That weird place that changes every three years and yet remains always the same.” She went back to her old childhood haunts and to the steps of the Ashmolean where she met him all those years ago. For a moment I thought she was going to cry, and then she burst out laughing. “You know what’s awful? What’s awful is that it is all all right.”
Maggie Smith speaking to The Guardian in 2004
September 2012
“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that’s not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered.
I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.” —John Green (via loveyourchaos)
I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren’t constantly berating yourself for being sad.” —John Green (via loveyourchaos)
August 2012
Kiss me
Ed Sheeran
Kiss Me | Ed Sheeran
And your heart’s against my chest, your lips pressed in my neck. I’m falling for your eyes, but they don’t know me yet. And with a feeling I’ll forget, I’m in love now.
“We’d said we’d keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it’s gone, it’s gone. We should have said we’d keep in words, because they are all we can string between us—words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.”
—David Levithan (via loveyourchaos)
