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Piper Winifred Biography

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“Sometimes my eyes tear up without warning, and I suddenly realize that I am missing him fiercely in a seemingly infinite moment of sadness that is all about daughterness. Lately I have recognized that I will always have this part of missing him deep inside me, or maybe that is just part of growing up. Growing up is an ongoing Journey, and grieving is one of the feeling we are likely to encounter on The Path.”

“He said my name aloud, but he was asleep. I crawled into his hospital bed with him again as best I could with all the extra paraphernalia in the way, and then the flood started. I began to cry a little bit, and then more poured out. I could not stop it. How could I know a gushing river would burst through the dam of appropriateness and strength I try to project and mix with the I-Love-Yous coming from my mouht and the giant tears I did not know were waiting behind my eyes? How do anyone's eyes stay in their head with such pressure swimming and bleeding onto a pillow? I Love you, Daddy. I am going to miss you, I thought to myself. "Good-bye," I choked out the words. "Good-bye, honey," said my sleeping, dreaming Daddy.”

“Somewhere or somewhen, someone will say something about life "going back to normal," and it will be the craziest thing that has ever been uttered in the history of the world, but people who pretend to be sane will treat it like a rational statement, and maybe . . . . . . maybe, if we are not careful we will believe the lie. No, life has changed, and no one else gets to decide what or when is "normal.”

“I have knelt is silent prayer, and also cried towards heaven countless times. I have repeated words as mantras, and I have executed dozens of heartfelt discourses to the open air. When did I top praying so often about losing my father, and being praying to find myself? At some point, it was not so much about my Dad, and not even about loss. It became about the way forward. Now I am the voyager, stuck as I am. in memories and more.”