Sometimes I feel like I can’t move forward with things. Because it’s not right that life is happening without her. But I keep telling myself that she would want us to change and move forward. She’d say an awesome quote and it’d make it all right. So I’m nervous because of how I feel. But I’m also nervous because it’s like this big life thing without Mom and I wonder how can it really be me without her. But then I remember that we’re all different people all through our lives, but that’s okay, as long as you remember all the people you used to be.
I got a note from a reader about how this passage helped her process the death of her mom. As a writer, we do not expect these things but they mean everything because we have these feelings about books we love too.
And of course, the last line ("we're all different people...") is a riff off of Matt Smith's final speech in Doctor Who. I will always credit that when people bring it up to me, that's Steven Moffat's dialogue, Miranda is just quoting it.
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