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He’d be happy for me if I fell in love with someone else. He is absolutely non-possessive, non-jealous—and I’m sorry, but I hate that.
grief is something you can get used to. You shrink it down, put it in your pocket, like a phone number scrawled on a piece of paper, and maybe after a while, you just leave it in your drawer and don’t carry it with you at all.
“Just take your place in the world with as much grace and gratitude as you can muster and try to see the best in us.”
People were incompetent and clueless, but I was, too—and we were all just doing our best.
Maybe I would go to college for both of us. And maybe someday I’d bring her to New York, and we could walk down Fifth Avenue, see Tiffany’s window, maybe go up to the Empire State Building, and get a White Castle hamburger. She’d heard of those. “Live your life,” she said. “And do it for both of us.”
when you’re drawn to someone, they also feel the same way about you because it’s the spark in you talking to the spark in them. And
She was so strong, and she spent so many years watching over me and protecting me, and now it’s my moment to do that for her.
“Ridiculous, isn’t it? That I needed her to tell me.” She smiles. “The marriage counselor said that sometimes we tell ourselves a little story, and we just hold on to it until it feels like it has to be true, and we can’t switch out of
