Another Life

by Kristin Hannah

She let out a heavy breath. She’d been a fool to think things would be different here. Why would they? Memories didn’t live on streets or in cities. They flowed in the blood, pulsed with your heartbeat. She’d brought it all with her, every loss and heartache. The weight of it bowed her back, exhausted her.

Don’t spend your time looking back. You don’t want to miss what’s ahead.”

LOVE CAN GET US THROUGH THE HARDEST TIMES. It can also be our hardest times.

She shouldn’t have tried to go back in time; it hurt too much. Some things were simply lost. She should have known that.

Angie wished there were some string of magic words that would ease this poor child’s heart, but sometimes life backed you into a corner and there was no easy way out.

This too shall pass. Life has a way of going on, and you do your best and move with it. A broken heart heals. Like every wound, there’s a scar, a memory, but it fades. Finally you realize that an hour has passed without your thinking about it, then a day.

“I wish I could make everything okay. But some dreams just pass us by. It’s the way life is.”