When the Stars Go Dark

by Paula McLain

“Is knowing so important? If something makes it this far, through everything the universe has thrown at it, maybe we should just say thank you.”

Long ago Corolla told me that it’s not what happens to us that matters most, but how we can learn to carry it. I’m starting to understand the difference, and how maybe the only way we can survive what’s here, and what we are, is together.