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“Grief. The moment when you realize that your world and the world are entirely separate. When your world has come to a grinding halt, when you’re drowning and flailing about, and the world just rolls on without you.”
She’d lost the person she thought she was and the person she’d planned to become.
But I’ve learned that the heart is a very big place, with room for many loves inside. And when one of those loves is lost, sometimes it’s too much to ask all the other loves to make up for the one that’s missing. The heart needs time to reassemble itself, to learn how to beat again when a part of it is gone.
‘You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.’”
“After he died, I just had to think . . . if it hurts this much now,” Donna said, “then I must have been pretty darn lucky.”
They’ve lost the physical, the visible, the tangible layer of love, but not the love itself.
