“Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.”
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
“Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.”
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
“The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby’s birth, a couple engaged, a tragic accident on a late-night highway—most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of ringing.”
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“From behind the wheel, I learn the difference between a eulogy and an elegy, and discover which is more vital, in life and in death.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
― The Lover's Dictionary
“A flash of resentment. It’s hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having . . . if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn’t fair.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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