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“Some people believe—like me—that we’re connected to certain people because they’re meant to be in our lives, meaning you’re destined to have some sort of experience with them,” Evie explained. “Sometimes we meet these people before we’re supposed to. Kind of like a ‘wrong time, wrong place’ sort of thing. So we drift apart, only to be pulled back together again by an invisible string when the universe decides you’re both ready to be in each other’s lives again.”
Sometimes we have to do things we’ve never done in order to grow. Because when you stop growing, you die.”
His grief is new and raw, and sometimes that can be so overwhelming that you just want to give up and let the avalanche take you down.
Grief, I’d learned, didn’t have a finish line. It was an endless journey. Some days the path was easy, and other days you’d be running perfectly fine and then, out of nowhere, you’d stumble, and the pain would come roaring back as if your loss had just happened.
It didn’t mean that she had suddenly turned into the perfect mother. And I was still far from a perfect daughter. The difference now was that we knew we didn’t have to be in order to love and be loved.
