The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.
Gail CaldwellYou canโt change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didnโt make the mistake that might have saved your life a day later. We donโt get those choices. The story is what got you here, and embracing its truth is what makes the outcome bearable.
Gail CaldwellThe belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing.
Gail Caldwell