Tara

“In France we say, tu me manques. It means ‘you are missing from me.’ Not I miss you—the way Americans say it—but you are missing from me. The part of you that is a part of me . . . is gone. This is how it is for her. There’s a void in her life where you used to be, and she doesn’t know how to fill it.” Rory sinks into the chair beside me, silent.”
― Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

“But we show up every day, because it’s important stuff. All of it—all of us—important.”
― Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

“Until you know for sure, there is still hope. And hope costs us nothing.”
― Barbara Davis, The Keeper of Happy Endings

“Their family and friends are the only ones who can understand the depths of their grief, the life’s work of creating meaning in loss, of having their world shaped by violence they couldn’t see coming and did not deserve.”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls