A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

by Sue Klebold

Hatred does not obliterate love. Indeed, the two are in constant fellowship.

Since childhood, I had taken refuge in that understanding of Him. However, there was no solace for me there in the early evening of April 20, 1999. Instead, I felt a real sense of fear. I was afraid to make eye contact with God.

the brain takes in only what it can bear.

They were acting as if my future was at stake, but as far as I was concerned, I had no future. My life was over.

Much of grieving is the process of encapsulating the individual in your memory,

Columbine wasn’t “about” guns or bullying; it was about the fifteen people who were now dead, and the twenty-four who had been injured, some profoundly.

“The people who do well create a place in their mind and their spirit where they are well, and they live from that place.”

“I believe Eric went to the school to kill people and didn’t care if he died, while Dylan wanted to die and didn’t care if others died as well.”