And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

Odd how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love-soaked, drenched in love-only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.