“ ...Daisy doesn't even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom... you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset, becaus… Matthew Quick
“ Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place. Denise Hildreth Jones
“ In this way unwittingly the Widow-to-Be is assuring her husband’s death—his doom. Even as she believes she is behaving intelligently—shrewdly and reasonably—she is taking him to a teeming petri dish o… Joyce Carol Oates
“ You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much. Abby Fabiaschi
“ I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case. Ann Benjamin
“ She did not belong to the healthy group of widows and widowers who, after mourning, would nurture the seed of their grief into growing from loss—perhaps continuing the dreams of the lost, or learning… Darrell Drake
“ I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind. Shannon Celebi
“ In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other times when I wanted to wear a sign on my body that read "Be nice to me, I'm grieving," or "D… Elizabeth Berrien
