CC’s Reviews > Loved and Missed > Status Update

“The people we love are always famous in our heads.”

“The good mood she put on like a uniform every morning.”

“It was important as you got older to take pleasure seriously… you must grab it by the lapels!”

“I sometimes wondered if there were quite long stretches of life in which you couldn’t afford to be yourself.”

“She was rhe only person I’d ever met who used the word ‘perhaps’ to make her words more definite.”

“They said the treatment was more likely to take if you had a companion with you. Life punished the lonely at every turn.”

“When you looked after someone at the end of things you learned more about what it meant to die than a living person should know.”

“She thought women with a sweet tooth trivialized themselves.”

(uh oh)

“There are no lies that wound as deeply as the lies we tell ourselves.”

“Read every day. It is a practice that dignifies humans.”