“I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.”
“Twenty-five years ago I made my vow to love you and to live with you wherever you went," she whispered. "Since you're bound to go, I'd best keep my promise.”
“The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me.”
“After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me.”
“I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.”
“If it's not for Him, I guess I'd be dead few years ago.”