“ We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy. Gail Caldwell
“ The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —GEORGE ELIOT, Scenes of Clerical Life Gail Caldwell
“ It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's li… Gail Caldwell
“ Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days. Gail Caldwell
“ I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. Gail Caldwell
“ Counting on each other became automatic. When I found a sweater in Texas I wanted, I learned to buy two, which was easier than seeing the look of disappointment on Caroline's face when I returned home… Gail Caldwell
“ It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too. Gail Caldwell
“ I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls thr… Gail Caldwell
“ Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past th… Gail Caldwell
“ The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grie… Gail Caldwell
“ Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive. Gail Caldwell
