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Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die.
There are truths too painful to be spoken aloud. Some demons should be left to rot in the dark forever.
“If you make it to thirty, you’ve got enough emotional scars to keep a therapist in business for the rest of your life. That’s no excuse to go around glaring at strangers like you want to chop off their heads.”
I’ve died a thousand deaths since the day I lost Cass. People say time heals all wounds, but that’s a lie. Grief is a chronic disease. The pain just keeps on coming.
Coop glances at my wedding ring, then looks back into my eyes. “Sure,” he says softly. “Death doesn’t end a relationship. Only a life.”
my mother always says an accident is just fate’s way of making sure you know you’re not the one in control.”
I tell myself on the bad days: in a world full of temporary things, I have this love that will last forever. Even though Cass is gone, our love isn’t. And that’s how I live.”
If the good memories outweigh the bad, you shouldn’t want to forget the past.
On one hand, I’ve got an über-assertive alpha male with a solid-steel ego handing me his feelings on a silver platter. On the other, I’ve got a mute recluse with an attitude as unstable as his mental health who’d rather have all his teeth pulled out than tell me anything.
The most dangerous creature on earth is a man with an obsession. There’s no limit to what he’ll destroy in his pursuit of it.”
“Love isn’t born of the flesh. It’s born of the spirit, and so can transcend the bonds of flesh, and life, and time. The poet Rumi said, ‘Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.’”
“If you’re going through hell, keep on going.” I think he meant keep going until you see the light on the other side. I’d like to believe there’s a light, but I’m finding that almost impossible. Hell is so damn big.
“Why does God always get blamed for everything? Maybe God’s just letting life do what it will, and watches us to see how we handle it.”
