Amanda

“When you fall in love with your kids, you fall in love forever.”
― Nina Riggs, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“Thank you for the taco casserole. It worked even better than my stool softeners. Thoughts and prayers are great, but Ativan and pot are better. Thank you for the flowers. I hope they die before I do. All your phone messages about how not knowing exactly what’s going on with me has stressed you out really helped me put things in perspective. Xanax is white, Zofran is blue, steroids make me feel like throttling you.”
― Nina Riggs, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“I am trying to know myself. I want a better sense of what kind of mother the kids will remember me to be. It’s hard: I am not done becoming me. I am still in the works. I still aim to be softer in some places, firmer in others.”
― Nina Riggs, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“Dying provokes nearsightedness in the caregiver.”
― Nina Riggs, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying