The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

“I don’t think we’re well prepared,” Mama said. “Maybe we’ve already made a mistake by coming here.” “I’ll help you,” Thelma promised. “We all will.”

So many memories. She wondered how long it would take her to work through them all. Even now, standing here, she didn’t know exactly how she felt about this place, but she knew, she believed, she could find a way to remember the good in it. She would never forget the bad, but she would let it go. She had to.

SUCH A THIN VEIL separated the past from the present; they existed simultaneously in the human heart.