Popularity means people think they know you.

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.

She used to tell me that she couldn't feel the sunlight anymore, not even when she was standing in it, not even when it was hot on her cheeks

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.