"That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too."
- Kaui Hart Hemmings
"Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?"
"I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it."
"A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we have to let her go. I won't tell anyone over the phone, because I didn't like hearing the news from the..."
"You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup."
"I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help m..."
"I picture Cully tromping through that high, deep snow. That's how I feel physically from all of this. Moving through grief like it's a thick drift, exhausting but enlivening. It makes your muscles ach..."
"I like the way men cry. They're efficient."
"We continue to eat, the conversation easy and flowing. I listen to everything everyone says, an urgency to pay attention, to not miss these moments you don't know are moments until they're gone. I nar..."
"Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent."