Jill

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she has slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.”
― Viktor Frankl

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated