The Possibilities Quotes

“We continue to eat, the conversation easy and flowing. I listen to everything everyone says, an urgency to pay attention, to not miss these moments you don't know are moments until they're gone. I narrow in, trying to hold it all in place, even though I think that if you document life this way, the moments will never set. We don't need to remember. Everything just becomes a part of you. And then it's over.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities

“I picture Cully tromping through that high, deep snow. That's how I feel physically from all of this. Moving through grief like it's a thick drift, exhausting but enlivening. It makes your muscles ache. It makes you feel you've inhabited your body completely.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities

“You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities

“I tilt my face up and inhale, willing my surroundings to enter me somehow and to remind me how small I am.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities

“I'd always dread this part of being a guest in the morning — the tentative yielding into the house's normal traffic.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities

“I can still love feeling so close to the sun and peaks of mountains, still love life at this altitude — it makes me feel like every breath counts.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities

“We continue to eat, the conversation easy and flowing. I listen to everything everyone says, an urgency to pay attention, to not miss these moments you don’t know are moments until they’re gone. I narrow in, trying to hold it all in place, even though I think that if you document life this way, the moments will never set. We don’t need to remember. Everything just becomes a part of you. And then it’s over.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Possibilities