Haley Earley

“Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.”
― Erin K. Kenny, Forest Kindergartens: The Cedarsong Way

“It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you’d otherwise find beautiful—a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids—and it only somehow deepens the loss. Grief is so lonely this way.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Grief and resilience live together.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming