Thereโs so much I canโt read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.
Amy HempelWear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
Amy HempelWhen my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
Amy HempelThe worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of lossโyou have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "โthree," and years later, "Three," she will say, "โfour.
Amy Hempel