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“He remembered only too well how unpredictable grief was. How it swept in and took you right off your feet with no warning.”
― Nancy Naigle, Out of Focus

“That’s how most of the last fifty years of my life disappeared, even though I didn’t know it before now. And believe me, that’s all it takes. One little kiss and then you’ve thrown your lot in with someone, and your whole life has to be built around him. And all the parts of you that don’t fit with him have to go into hiding, and all the ones that do have to come to the surface and act like they’re the whole of you. The entire reason I did what I did is because we both knew I’d be gone in a few hours. It’s the first time in my life I ever got to do a thing like that and not stay around to pay the price. You’ll understand when you get older.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Allie and Bea

“Eating with children at a restaurant is like eating with a live grenade. It’s going to explode every time. You just don’t know when.”
― Matthew Norman, We're All Damaged

“But death was like that. An interruption of a work in progress.”
― Anne Frasier, Play Dead