Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

It’s natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily most gracefully. So here’s me asking you to please not make that mistake.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.