Fern Chasida

“We talk for a very long time and I ask her if it gets easier and she says not really, just different. A different duller kind of hurt, the kind that doesn't surprise you anymore.
I ask what her parent were like when it happened and she says they have never been the same.”
― Liz Moore, Heft

“People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.”
― Anne Tyler

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven