Maria’s Reviews > Buckeye > Status Update

“Family plots were practical, she supposed. The ones she found unsettling were the double stones for spouses when one of them was still alive—the wife, usually, her birth date
followed by a dash and then nothing, like an unfinished sentence… What was it like to visit your husband's grave and each time see your own waiting for you, and that unfinished sentence? Would you feel like you were holding things up?“

"He says he was hoping you would find him. He says he loves you, Felix. He wants you to know that.
And he says this—that you have to keep swimming. You're the one in the water, and you're the one who has to swim." 😭

"’Don't apologize,’ Bishop said. ‘It makes sense to me. Why do you think they didn't want us to pack anything, going over? They knew we were going to be bringing a lot of shit home.’”

“She couldn't imagine getting through something like that as a parent and said as much, but Mrs. Dodson said time helped. Time was like a rock bed with a lot of layers, she said, then took a moment to find the word she wanted: strata. Even the most unbearable things became fossils, after a while.”