“She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.”

“So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope.”

“Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.”

“My custom has always been to ponder grief; that is, to follow it through ventricle and aorta to find its lurking places.”

“There has been something missing from this experience of Catholicism that I've plunged into to such a surprising depth. It's the women.”

“Something has fallen asleep there, that's all, but it's warm, and it's hers, it's the pain imprinted on her, and his healing powers rise up. It's her with everything she now is.”