If I believed in the efficacy of prayer, you would be in mine, he wrote.
“Her father’s death had been a wake-up call—a warning that she, too, would die one day, perhaps sooner than expected, perhaps without warning, and it was entirely possible that she wasn’t living the life she’d been meant to live.”
― The Invited
― The Invited
“There are two kinds of grief at a wake: grieving the loss of what was and grieving the loss of what wasn’t.”
― The Bright Years
― The Bright Years
“I like the fact Leo is getting to know Bobby, even a little bit, and talking about him helps me to keep his memory alive.”
― Broken Country
― Broken Country
“Grief will make you want to waste every breath on prayers that don’t get answered. Use that breath on the people you still got.”
― Junie
― Junie
“But you can’t just decide nobody else matters because you’re in love. Besides, if your whole world is just the person you love, what happens when they’re gone?”
― Junie
― Junie
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