Sandy Snyder

“I think people have a language for death; they know what to do, what to say. But there is no script for divorce, especially one as dramatic as yours.”
― Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

“Let me tell you, sweet patootie, we have got a deluxe compartment. It has two pull-down berths, which make four beds altogether, and that is what breaks our hearts because there is an empty bunk which would have been yours, Countess Singing Cloud. Tonight before we go to sleep, we are going to fold down the covers and pretend you are there.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“If you’re fortunate enough to live as long as I have, you’re given the opportunity to become many people in one lifetime. To evolve, grow, change—sometimes, when I look back at the girl I was at nineteen, or even the woman at forty or fifty, it’s as if I’m viewing another’s life.”
― Christine Nolfi, The Secret Library of Hanna Reeves

“To face the past is to momentarily turn your back on what is now. And when you do that, you miss so damn much.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark