Jessica Handler > Quotes

“Observing the adults around me when Susie died, I noticed for the first time but not the last that survivors make one of two choices. Either the survivor caves in for the long term, or she decides to keep moving, as if living after the death of a loved one placed her on the kind of moving sidewalk you see in airports and shopping malls. Standing upright and holding the handrails would deliver her, at some future point, back into her life in progress. This is a decision that might not be made consciously. My family’s survivors were one day startled to find that we had decided to keep moving.”
― Jessica Handler, Invisible Sisters: A Memoir

“Living with catastrophic illness deprives us of the freedom to be emotional. Otherwise, every day begins and ends exposed to a blow, and every loss and every gain paralyzes. Sarah simply moved”
― Jessica Handler, Invisible Sisters: A Memoir