By the time Ruth and Tommy actually did separate, my carer training had already begun. So I was hardly ever at the Cottages. It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.
(Source: kathy-h)
He tried to shake me off, but I kept holding on, until he stopped shouting and I felt the fight go out of him. Then I realised he too had his arms around me. And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field, for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night.
“I come here and imagine that this is the spot where everything I’ve lost since my childhood is washed up.”
(Source: rainwoods)
MOVIE CHALLENGE : Never Let Me Go
”We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”
Six Favourite Movies of 2011 → Never Let Me Go (asked by fluffalos & girlylollipop)
(Source: catching-everlark)
A few minutes later, he said suddenly:
‘Kath, can we stop? I’m sorry, I need to get out a minute.’
I could make out in the mid-distance, near where the field began to fall away, Tommy’s figure, raging, shouting, flinging his fists and kicking out.
(Source: remys)
(Source: thelovesongofrmbrennan)
He tried to shake me off, but I kept holding on, until he stopped shouting and I felt the fight go out of him. Then I realised he too had his arms around me. And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field, for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just holding each other, while the wind kept blowing and blowing at us, tugging our clothes, and for a moment, it seemed like we were holding onto each other because that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night.
We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
