“Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.”

“Life is full of detours, most likely years worth, but the "detours" get you to where you were meant to be.”

“Leave No Trace (bad language)Sometimes she will speak of him as present, sometimes as past, and sometimes as always. That is how it should be. No one needs rescuing from her own story of the truth and no one needs to side step her history. p270”

“Life must not be only envisioned through others eyes it must be envisioned through your own eyes.”

“There it was before her - life. Life: she thought but she did not finish her thought. She took a look at life, for she had a clear sense of it there, something real, something private, which she shared neither with her children nor with her husband. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her; and sometimes they parleyed (when she sat alone); there were, she remembered, great reconciliation scenes; but for the most part, oddly enough, she must admit that she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance.”

“Faith would get her through when she had to face tomorrow, but her grief needed the tears to fall. There was healing in those tears.”