But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
–Es una pena perder el tiempo. Siempre creemos tener mucho.
You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically. I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.
The only whole heart is a broken heart.
Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.
So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said. Are you going to tell me? Yes. Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That's it? Be grateful. That's it? For what you have. For the love you rec...
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments o...
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
No soul remembered is ever really gone.
I love you every day,Mom
I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.
He used the haunting phrase, Alas for what has been lost.
Giving makes me feel like I’m living.
Don't assume that it's too late to get involved
But I had never seen her that way. I had never known her as Pauline, the name he parents had given her, or as Posey, the name her friends had given her; only as Mom, the name I had given her. I could...
And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was m...
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb."Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?"That's big."Yes. But there's som...