If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.
Elizabeth EdwardsResilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
Elizabeth EdwardsTo be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
Elizabeth Edwards