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What they don’t know is this: appearing okay is a lot easier than actually being okay.
sometimes sad comes out as mad.”
Grief seemed to chase away the comfort of sleep,
Annie had loved Natalie like a sister, yet she was expected to go on with life as though Natalie meant no more to her than the checkout girl at the Wal-Mart.
rather have a woman who wore a size ten but wanted to make love with the lights on, than a size two who hid in the shadows.
“It’s all I have left.”
stepped back across the invisible line married people wear around them when spending time with the opposite sex,
everyone else find it so simple to slip back into life, the world revolving, businesses opening and closing, buying and selling, when the pillow on the right side of his bed was empty every night?
through their whole first dance. Every time they shifted, a small shower of beads
“I want to work here. I want to help Natalie’s family and her children.”
“What you don’t know is that I lost my mom when I was twelve. I know how hard it can be for a kid. I promised Natalie I’d be there for them.”
It always amazed him how something that is broken on the inside can look so perfect on the outside.
It’s the end that marks a beginning, not the first day.” Every time he read it, he couldn’t help thinking she’d been talking about more than school.
“Please don’t ever feel like you can’t talk about Natalie. She will always be a part of you.”
“Are you afraid of death, or are you afraid of leaving your family?”
until after the kids got back in a few weeks. Even while ignoring