“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.”
― The Time of My Life
― The Time of My Life
“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!”
― Hope and Despair
― Hope and Despair
“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.”
― Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
― Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”
― If I Stay
― If I Stay
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