Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
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 CaldwellThe truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Gail Caldwellmemory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.
Gail Caldwell