Betsy Gant

“...a drowning nihilism, a cycle of thinking there's no point, what's the point, there's no point to anything. I want there to be a point, even if I do not know, for now, what that point is.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“My father was older, yes, but in my mind, still too young for death. I cursed them both, my mother and my father. They hadn’t prepared me for death.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“It seems unfair that time is almost up for me just when I’m finding true happiness again, but time is never a friend to the sick or the old.”
― Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers

“How quickly my life has become another life, how pitiless this becoming is, and yet how slow I am to adapt.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief