Rita

“I watched a swatch of the sky turn red. The red spread like blood in the sea: red,red,red, and then less and less red, until there was only blue left. I squinted as the sun rose.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira

“Thank you for all your guidance and wisdom, for setting the bar so much higher than I thought I could reach, and for giving me plenty of room to run with my own ideas. You've been best teacher I've ever had. If I achieve in my life a fraction of what you've accomplished in yours, i'll consider my life a success.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

“On the forty-ninth day after Lynn's death I opened all the windows in the alcove, even though it was raining I closed my eyes and tried to feel Lynn's spirit. A leaf suddenly fell off the magnolia tree and flew in the wind and hit he screen right in front of me. I believed that leaf was a sign from Lynn.”
― Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira

“My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment.

But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today didn't matter.”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice