Holding on to Love
The Story of Love, Resilience and Loss. A memoir by Regina Rose
“One day, the world may stop saying their name. The stories may grow quiet, the photographs may gather dust, and life may carry everyone forward. But somewhere, someone will still remember the sound of their laughter, the way they walked into a room, and all the little things that made them who they were. And that someone will carry a love the world may never see, for a person the heart will never stop knowing.”
“We never know which ordinary day will become a memory we would give anything to relive. The conversation we barely noticed. The familiar voice from the next room. The goodbye we thought was only goodbye for now. We don’t realize how precious a moment is until it becomes something we can only return to in our hearts.”
“A mother spends a lifetime teaching her children how to live without her. What no one prepares her for is a world in which she must learn how to live without one of them. And no matter how many birthdays pass, how many seasons change, or how much time moves forward, some part of her will always remember the child who once fit in her arms.”
“Perhaps the hardest part of losing someone is waking up with all the love you still have for them and nowhere to put it. No embrace to give. No voice to call. No ordinary moment to share. Just a heart overflowing with everything that can no longer be said, wishing love alone could find its way to them.”
“Sometimes life takes someone from us and leaves us looking at the people still standing beside us, wondering how to carry both the love for the one who is gone and the responsibility to keep living for those who remain. The heart makes room for both. Not because it hurts less, but because love has never known how to exist in only one direction.”
“Perhaps we do not disappear all at once. Perhaps we live on in the stories someone tells, in the kindness someone learned from us, in a familiar expression on a face we once held close. Perhaps being remembered is not about keeping someone in the past, but allowing the love they left behind to keep changing the future.”
