Fly Away (Firefly Lane #2)

by Kristin Hannah

Grief is a sneaky thing, always coming and going like some guest you didn’t invite and can’t turn away.

sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.

You think you have all the time in the world until you know you don’t.

There was peace in loss, beauty in death, freedom in regret. She had learned that the hard way.

There’s a river of sadness in me; it’s always been there, but now it is rising, spilling over its banks. I know there’s a possibility that if I’m not careful, it will become the biggest part of me and I will drown in it.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

“When you’re a mom, you learn about fear. You’re always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather. There is nothing that can’t hurt our kids, I swear.” She turned. “The irony is they need us to be strong.”