moms aren’t the best audience for medication humor.
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.