Getting Near to Baby Quotes

“Knowing that time is short is important. Knowing to make the best use of it you can, that's important. Letting those around you know you love them. Because you never know when you'll have to say good-bye.”
― Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby

“Grief stays with a person for a long time.”
― Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby

“Why wouldn't you talk to us Little Sister?

"I tried," Little Sister says. "I did. But my voice was lost in sadness.”
― Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby

“No matter what she'd done, you have to say..." "You have to say, 'It wouldn't have made a bit if difference.”
― Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby

“We only had each other, it's true. But there were things he had to teach me. Things I needed to learn. Things no one else could teach me, maybe, because they weren't able to share their pain with each other."
"What do you mean?" Aunt Patty says.
"I learned that year-- just in time, really," Uncle Hob says, almost as if he is talking to himself, "before I started to believe all that baloney about what it is that makes a man-- I learned to cry unashamedly. It was the saving of me, really.”
― Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby

“Why don't you paint Baby the way we remember her?"
Mom didn't answer me right away. In fact, she took so long to say anything at all I thought maybe she hadn't heard me or hadn't wanted to. She never stopped painting the whole time, even as she finally said, "Maybe it's because I already know how Baby was here with us. I'm painting the part I don't know," she said. "I'm painting so I'll understand.”
― Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby

“We finally lay in the grass, breathing hard as we looked up into the blue of the sky. That always makes me dizzy. It's a funny thing how I don't much notice gravity when I walk around. It is only when I lie flat in the grass that I have any sense of the earth spinning around and around, carrying me with it. It is only when I am flat to the earth that I feel the looseness of the grip in which we are held. Any one of us, at any moment, might be floating free.”
― Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby

“I might have never learned to cry if it weren't for my grandfather, Uncle Hob says. I might have never learned to cry. Which means I might never have known really what it is to pray or to laugh down deep in my belly or to tell you aunt Patty how much I love her.”
― Audrey Couloumbis, Getting Near to Baby