Unremarried Widow Quotes

“People kept giving me space, all of us hoping my grief had a half-life, but I didn't need space. I needed people to say Miles's name out loud. I needed them not to flinch when I said it. Weren't they curious about the color of his eyes? I needed them to acknowledge not just that he had died but that he had lived.”
― Artis Henderson, Unremarried Widow

“If I loved him enough, I reasoned, he would come home.”
― Artis Henderson, Unremarried Widow: A Memoir

“Before he turned to leave he placed a kiss at the corner of my mouth, that small stretch of skin that is for neither friendship nor love but some nameless place in between.”
― Artis Henderson, Unremarried Widow: A Memoir