Nancy

“Quote in the paper about cancer patients. It said “The people who do well create a place in their mind and their spirit where they are well, and they live from that place.” This is what we are doing. Tom’s analogy is that a tornado has destroyed our house, and we can only live in one part of it. This is what living with grief is like. You dwell in that small place where you can function.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“Of course, I was assigning to others all the negative feelings I had about myself.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“The symptoms of intense grief—memory loss, attention deficit, emotional fragility, incapacitating fatigue—are surprisingly similar to those resulting from traumatic brain injury.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“Those letters helped me tremendously, as did the ones where parents and grandparents shared stories about hardship and humiliation caused by a family member.”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy