Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part. - Gail Caldwell
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
- Gail Caldwell
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. W… - Gail Caldwell
You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. W…
memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain. - Gail Caldwell
memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.
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
Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty. - Gail Caldwell
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive. - Gail Caldwell
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world … - Gail Caldwell
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world …
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 dialogu… - 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 dialogu…
Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation. - Gail Caldwell
Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.
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