On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beaut…

- Ben Sherwood

And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.

- Ben Sherwood

There's no such thing as a lost cause.

- Ben Sherwood

How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floatin…

- Ben Sherwood

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

- Ben Sherwood

Most of all, I miss that feeling when you go to sleep at night and when you wake up in the morning. It's that feeling that everything is all rightin …

- Ben Sherwood

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

- Ben Sherwood

That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One deat…

- Ben Sherwood

...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

- Ben Sherwood