Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Quotes

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The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and lon...

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- ...

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Counting on each other became automatic. When I found a sweater in Texas I wanted, I learned to buy two, which was easier than seeing the look of disappointment on Caroline's face when I returned home with only one. When she went out from the boathou...

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship