Stephanie

“When he died, I felt like a dark, devouring force had been stilled at last. I wore his death like wings.”
― Thomas H Cook, The Cloud of Unknowing

“I see the enormous value of a mother's presence because I live everyday with its absence.”
― Hope Edelman

“And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)”
― Dennis LeHane