Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.
Gail CaldwellWhat do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.
Gail CaldwellHope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
Gail CaldwellThe truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Gail CaldwellThe Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures.
Gail Caldwell