Close to Home (Tracy Crosswhite, #5)

by Robert Dugoni

“In time, though, you learn how to live with the pain. You learn how to live with all the memories, and you learn not to fear them. You learn to embrace them, to welcome them.”

Grief leaves wounds that will never fully heal and potentially change you fundamentally. Just as a devastating flood can replenish the plains with fertile top soil, it is an opportunity to work with the you and till the soil and sow the seeds for a new future.

“It isn’t going to be better, Maggie. It’s going to be different, and different is okay. You just have to learn how to embrace it. Like anything, it takes time. What you have to realize is that crying is God’s way of helping us wash away the pain. So don’t you ever apologize for crying; it’s a reminder to us all that we’re human, and that we love our family with our entire being. And that’s a beautiful thing.”