My Very Best Friend Quotes

“Sometimes the people who are gone come to us. I don’t know how, there is no scientific explanation for it, but they do. You must only be watching for it, listening closely.”
― Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend

“They never leave our hearts, the ones we love. Where we go, they go. When we cry, they comfort. When we laugh, they laugh, too. When we grieve, when we’re lonely, it’s their hand we reach for, if only in our minds. We hear their voices, their advice, sometimes their reprimands. We hear their words of love and encouragement, of warning. Their love lives on, breathes on, carries on, and eventually gives us peace, the memories holding us in a hug.”
― Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend

“There is some pain in life that is so crushing, it is a wonder we live through it.”
― Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend

“Rapists can come in any form at all. They may wear jeans. They may wear tuxedos. They may wear crosses.”
― Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend

“What also came to Chief Harris’s attention, as it had to Carston Chit, was that there were letters written, complaints made, by victims, by their mothers, their fathers, to the parishes, to the archbishops, to the Vatican, all outraged about Angus, for years. Nothing was done.”
― Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend

“Most people in the village were at the meeting to discuss quarantining Bridget. Hysteria travels fast. So does panic, ignorance, general stupidity, a lack of education, a need to spread gossip, and a general desire to get freaked out about something.”
― Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend

“It is a sad, tormenting event in life when you are watching someone you love die. You know they’re leaving. You know that train is coming. You don’t know exactly when the train will arrive, but you know it’s on its way. You can hear the whistle echoing in the distance, out over the sea. You can see the steam above the straight line of the horizon. A bare puff, but it’s there.”
― Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend

“already missed her. That is a harsh place to be: missing someone who is dying when they are still living. You feel like you’re on the edge of a cliff, and when you fall off the cliff you’re falling into jagged, ripping pain. You know it’s coming. You can’t stop it. You can only be as brave as you possibly can be.”
― Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend

“When you're dying, the unicorn up in heaven gets a note from an angel telling her there's a person who's going to need a ride up soon. The unicorn finds out what the person likes. Favorite foods and books, colors and activities, pets and games. She gets a room ready for him, or her, near people who she knows they'll enjoy being with, maybe other friends and family who have died before.

When the unicorn is done, she jumps off of heaven's perch, flies through the blue sky, around the clouds, over any rainbows, and down to the person. She's invisible to everyone. She patiently waits. When the person dies, she gathers them up on her back, using her hooves and horn. All of a sudden, they sit up straight and smile, they laugh, because they're on top of a unicorn and alive again. They hold on tight to her golden reins and the unicorn takes them to their new home, where they're happy.”
― Cathy Lamb, My Very Best Friend