“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”

“You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the edge of the map ready to blow fire in your face if you strayed off course, to the edge of the known world.”

“A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.”

“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”