Leslie Gray Streeter > Quotes

“You can only make decisions based on the information you have at the moment, and it doesn't help anyone to beat yourself up over it.”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title

“I don't really know how long we are in there. I wonder if it's long enough, because there is no do-over. I am scared that I might be doing this wrong. All of this is wrong. But as I touch his head one last time, something solidifies in me instead of breaking. I am not okay. But I'm okay enough to do the next things I have to do. All of them awful. We walk out of the room where the love of my life is lying dead and its too awful...stop”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title

“The final visitor is my friend Jason from York, Pennsylvania, who's my brother in the way that half the people I call my aunts and uncles and my cousins are family with out actually being related to me legally or biologically. They're people you would brush your teeth in front of. In your underwear.”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title

“Youth makes you think that you’re the only one that counts, and when you’re older, you remember everyone else was human, too.”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Family & Other Calamities

“It would have been nice to have been loved. But I liked being right even more.”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Family & Other Calamities

“I don't think until we've really settled into the new house that it becomes plain just how much I needed to move, how much pain and memory I had been holding there physically, how impossible it had been for me to move on before we actually moved.”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title

“I've been going back to our street, past the old house, to take walks with my former neighbor Liz. Every time I see it, I'm a little less sad, a little less haunted.”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title

“Movie Christopher Plummer had the most amazing life with his chosen partner and it ended before he wanted it to. He's not looking for a replacement, because as far as he is concerned, there is no replacement for that.”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title

“Currently, my career aspirations are queen, veterinarian, and crossing guard, because crossing guards control the traffic with a whistle and a white glove. That impresses me.”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Family & Other Calamities

“journalism is on life support and democracy is in the next bed in the ICU.”
― Leslie Gray Streeter, Family & Other Calamities