“I don't want a world without pain, or loss. I just want them to mean something.”
“And sometimes, if she was brave enough, she would turn to the memories of little James. Not the end, but the days before. When she would slide her pinky into his open palm and his tiny fingers would close tight around it. He would peer around the room with his brand-new eyes, and Helen thought that perhaps after the womb, this dark, tight space probably seemed about right. He was wonderfully oblivious to the danger they were in. She became his protector, and for those days, that was all she was. It changed everything. It changed her. And somehow, he in turn protected Helen. He was the sun that couldn’t reach them—he broke away the darkness. As she thought of him, of those red curls and blue eyes, Helen found herself feeling the warmth from him, even though he was gone.”
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“My recent loss was too fresh, too sharp. I couldn’t cut myself on the edges of it. Not again. Not right now.”
Source: White Pines
“So this is what it’s like when someone you love dies, I thought. Like constantly trying to swallow a sharp stone.”
Source: White Pines
“The absence of things is so loud it pierces my brain with loss. What used to be, is simply no more.
But the memories linger like smoke in the air.”
Source: White Pines
“No one is there to require anything of me. I sit with my thoughts and, in my stillness, I become invisible...”
Source: A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss
“I want to push it all away into a closed-off part of my mind where it can no longer trouble me.”
Source: A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss
“Things do still touch me. It surprises me, this capacity within me still to see and feel the beauty in life. I would have expected it to be snuffed out by sorrow.”
Source: A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss
“I am a great friend of chaos. It’s all we have … this whole concept of being able to manage life… life is risk, life is chance, life is being open to chance. The best things in my life, and probably in anybody’s life, come out of being open to being blown off course.”
“That's where I am now, caught between past and future.”
Source: A Song Inside: A heartbreaking and uplifting memoir about love and loss