The Eyes of the Heart Quotes

“being, in another way he was immeasurably more. I could hardly conceive of a more unlikely person than my mother to have written such a letter to, but since trying to shout it all to her instead was unthinkable, I mailed it anyway, and when I asked about it some weeks later, her only answer was to say that it had made her cry. I don’t think that it was anything I said that made her cry; in fact I doubt if she even read my letter all the way through. I think that it was being reminded by the letter of her original question about death. I think her tears had to do with what she saw as the pathos of simply having asked it when she knew without ever talking about it that her own death couldn’t be all that far away.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found – A Poignant and Honest Exploration of Father's Suicide and Family Relationships