Every day my anxiety is higher,every day the grief more mortal.Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…

I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it.

My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it.

I didn't want him to think I was giving up - I wasn't. I simply couldn't put myself together just yet.

I didn't want him to think I was giving up - I wasn't. I simply couldn't put myself together just yet.

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.

Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)