snowdrops

“One inescapable and humbling challenge of loss is that grief requires us to make new maps. For when we lose something dear—a person or a way of life—the geography as we have known it has changed. And so, our old maps, no matter how dear, are no longer accurate, no longer of use. We have to make new maps for how to move forward. In its paradoxical way, grief forces us back into the world where we have to keep learning.”
― Mark Nepo, Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity

“I wonder how many people out there are able to be strong—or strong enough—because of the person they’re married to.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

“Lucy said, looking at him now, “My point is that every person on this earth is so complicated. Bob, we’re also complicated, and we match up for a moment—or maybe a lifetime—with somebody because we feel that we are connected to them. And we are. But we’re not in a certain way because nobody can go into the crevices of another’s mind, even the person can’t go into the crevices of their own mind, and we live— all of us— as though we can.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

“We have no choice but to accept the truth of what is and love our way forward, discovering the new life unlived ahead of us.”
― Mark Nepo, Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity