“The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.”

“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”

“And that I miss her, that I need her, and this kind of missing, this kind of need, the kind of emptiness it leaves behind is worse than waking up one day and finding the whole world has collapsed in on itself, that I was over longer before it was.”

“Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.”

“pg 13 the day ahead of her is like something living and breathing, something that is barreling towards her at an alarming rate and it seems only a matter of time before it will knock her flat on her back.”

“His droning on and on was a bit soothing, far more than Calvin’s hand on her arm or the children’s smiling up at her. His talking told her in some odd way that one day the pain would at least be cut in half.”