From Here to the Great Unknown

by Lisa Marie Presley

For the world when seen through a little girl’s eyes Greatly resembles Paradise.

Looking back, there was really only one thing I was sure of: that I was loved by my dad. —

It’s your greatest childhood fear: When you love someone, you don’t want to lose them. It’s fucking terror and it tortures you. Most kids have that worry. Whenever I told my dad I was scared he was going to die, he’d say, “I’m not going anywhere, I’m not going anywhere.” But he did.

I carried that guilt, the guilt of being an older sibling, for years. Ben could always break my heart.

You must allow pain in to free yourself from it.

Learning to hold joy and suffering and indifference and hope simultaneously.