Making Faces

by Amy Harmon

“Everybody is a main character to someone,”

“It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren’t ever going to be loved the way you want to be loved.”

“Because terrible things happen to everyone, Brosey. We’re all just so caught up in our own crap that we don’t see the shit everyone else is wading through.”

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

“It wouldn’t hurt so badly if I didn’t love him so much. That’s the irony of it,” Fern said after a while, her voice scratchy and thick with tears. “The happiness of knowing Bailey, of loving him, is part of the pain now. You can’t have one without the other.”

There isn’t heartache if there hasn’t been joy. I wouldn’t feel loss if there hadn’t been love. You couldn’t take my pain away without removing Bailey from my heart. I would rather have this pain now than never have known him. I just have to keep reminding myself of that.”

He said Bailey taught him to love and to put things in perspective, to live for the present, to say I love you often and to mean it. And to be grateful for every day. It taught him patience and perseverance. It taught him there are things that are more important than wrestling.”