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.
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
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.
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 …
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
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
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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