The Things We Cannot Say

by Kelly Rimmer

Life has a way of reminding you that you are at the mercy of chance, and that even well-thought-out plans can turn to chaos in an instant.

I had no power to change my lot. All I had was the breath in my lungs and a tiny fragment of hope that if I kept moving forward, I could survive until someone else changed my world.

even deafening silence was preferable to noise if the noise always ended in grief.

just because our suffering isn’t the worst, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t count.”

When a man is a patient on an operating table, and there’s only one person in the room with the skills to save his life, that patient will instantly forget that he used to be a bigot.”