If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254

I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon

I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.

If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee.

Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.