“love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.”

“Follow love and it will flee;Flee love and it will follow you.”

“Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it lodged in you. Sometimes I feel like I have swallowed a pile of stones. Grief makes me heavy. It makes me slow. Even on days when I laugh a lot, or dance, or finish a project, or meet a deadline, or celebrate, or make love, it is there. Lodged deep inside of me.”

“All that was missing... was everything else.”

“all that was missing...was everything else? Ann Hood, the Knitting Circle”

“No mother should lose her child.”

“Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.”