Someone to Remember Quotes

“Widowhood is a minefield of memories waiting to come for us with no warning.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“I know. I get it. What’re you thinking?” “Did she think I was cheating on my wife at a place we used to go together? Is she appalled that I’m already out with someone new? And why do I care what she thinks?” “From everything I’ve read and heard”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“Mention of late spouses is allowed and encouraged. I don’t understand why anyone would be jealous or threatened by someone who’s dead.” “Exactly. How stupid is that?”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“relief”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“I’m mostly happy. You know that”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“Our relationship wasn’t perfect. We often disagreed about little things”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“People who don’t know better think everything gets better after you survive the first year. Some of my widow friends found it was years two”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“It’s that you loved Patrick so deeply and so truly that you’ll suffer over losing him for the rest of your life. So many people never get to experience a love like that.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“PTSD doesn’t work like that. It says when and what and how.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“But I had literal seconds to process that he was dying right in front of me. It’s been a long time since I dwelled on the events of that day. They tend to live in a back corner of my mind that I keep sealed off so I wouldn’t be regularly retraumatized as I worked so hard to rebuild our lives without Wes. We’ve done a good job of that”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“Grief makes a mockery of even the most confident people. Mark loved me passionately”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“I’m trying to figure out who I am as a single guy again. It’s the weirdest freaking thing to accept I’m not married anymore.”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“She’s lying when she says it never occurred to her that she could lose me”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“We hope for the best and try not to constantly anticipate the worst. That’s all we can do”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“After you survive something like that”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“Widows debate which is worse—seeing a spouse through a dreaded illness or losing them suddenly. I used to say the illness was worse”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“widowhood would be a “journey.” All I knew then was that my heart was shattered”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“If my love could’ve saved him”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“I’ve always known life isn’t fair”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember

“know his father. I can’t do this without him. I simply can’t. I’m not sure how long we’re there in that oddly lit room with the body of the man who was my whole life a few short hours ago and is now gone forever. I raise my head to look at his face”
― Marie Force, Someone to Remember