The Hot Young Widows Club Quotes

“There are few things that we all have in common, no matter where we come from or what we do for a living. We are all born, we all die. And in between, we all suffer. In big ways and small ways.”
― Nora McInerny, The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief

“Pity keeps our heart closed up, locked away. Empathy opens our heart up to the possibility that the pain of others could one day be our own pain, too. Pity keeps the pain of others at arm's length. It says "That sad thing is happening over there, but it isn't my sad thing." Pity sheds a tear and moves on. Empathy rolls up its sleeves and pitches in.”
― Nora McInerny, The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief

“If we all took our personal tragedies and lined them up for comparison, we would find that someone always has it worse, and someone always has it better than us. We'd quickly find ourselves ranking our losses against one another, deciding who deserves more sympathy, more compassion. There is no conversion chart that would help us quantify and weigh the losses, no yardstick we can use to measure them against one another.”
― Nora McInerny, The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief