Toni

“Life is a near-death experience. And death is a real-life one.
You just want to wake up while you still can. While the world is turning and the owls are calling and gratitude is the very air you are still breathing, because, whatever happens next, that's how lucky you are.
You are still breathing.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“I used to talk to Nick and the kids when I was writing my etiquette column -- I'd read aloud the dilemmas and we'd discuss our thoughts. The questions were all over the place, What do I do about my neighbor's unbearable wind chimes, my mother-in-law's suffocating myrrh body wash . . .. But every individual question was really a version of the same existential one: People are different from me. How do I survive it?

"With as much grace as possible: was our answer, every time. What else is there? . . .

If you're not careful, you'll end up mistaking difference for loss -- which is how you lose everything.”
― catherine newman, Wreck

“But every individual question was really a version of the same existential one: People are different from me. How do I survive it?”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck

“If you're not careful, you'll end up mistaking difference for loss--which is how you lose everything.”
― Catherine Newman, Wreck