Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything.
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…
- Gail Caldwell
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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 …
Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation. - Gail Caldwell
Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.
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