14 quotes found
“[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.”
“I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.”
“This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.”
“Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.”
“Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter”
“She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential”
“Pattie saw grief. Her eyes focused on a version of her own young self, and so many other children in Vietnam who grew up without parents, some abandoned because of their ethnicity, others because o...”
“I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.”
“I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.”
“Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that c...”
“For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.”
“At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.”
“It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle.”
“Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.”
