The Best of Friends Quotes

“Waiting for someone to die is a lot like waiting for someone to be born.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“I might not love myself enough to demand to be treated better, but I love my kids enough, and they deserve more.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“the point of parenting is to raise your children into healthy individuals, and pulling away is part of that, but it doesn’t make the process any less painful.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“The thing nobody tells you about grief is that time moves on. Or my personal favorite that nobody stops telling you—time heals all wounds. As if I want time to go anywhere. I want the world to stop. For every person to quit moving around me. For the screens to quit flashing and the zombies to stop walking so slowly down the streets that they almost get hit by cars. I don’t want the cars to drive or the buses to come,”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“The thing nobody tells you about grief is that time moves on. Or my personal favorite that nobody stops telling you—time heals all wounds. As if I want time to go anywhere. I want the world to stop. For every person to quit moving around me. For the screens to quit flashing and the zombies to stop walking so slowly down the streets that they almost get hit by cars.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“I’m telling you—Jacob and Sawyer were in a relationship.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“It’s like this whenever I wake up. In that instant between sleep and waking, I forget how my life has been destroyed. It’s that brief second that destroys me because it makes me remember how happy I used to be, how perfect things were,”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“I always intended to go back and finish my degree, but fear stole my choices one at a time until I didn’t have any left.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“I catch Mom’s eyes over my shoulder as I pass behind the couch and mouth “Thank you” to her. She smiles in return and snuggles closer to Jacob.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“Becoming a mom birthed my biggest fear—losing him.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“that’s”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“always intended to go back and finish my degree, but fear stole my choices one at a time until I didn’t have any left.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“I’m really worried about you.” His chest bulges with muscles underneath his white T-shirt.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“She’s reading him the children’s version of the second Harry Potter book. She loves anything related to Harry Potter,”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“Sawyer’s death was a terrible accident. Just like what happened to Jacob. Our boys were screwing around. Being drunk and stupid with a gun.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“affecting”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“The thing nobody tells you about grief is that time moves on. Or my personal favorite that nobody stops telling you—time heals all wounds. As if I want time to go anywhere. I want the world to stop. For every person to quit moving around me. For the screens to quit flashing and the zombies to stop walking so slowly down the streets that they almost get hit by cars. I don’t want the cars to drive or the buses to come, because every minute feels like I’m leaving Sawyer behind and living the life he was supposed to have.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“I don’t know how he can move my body without laying a finger on it. How his physical presence becomes so large I can’t see around it and everything inside me shrinks to nothing. How it happens so fast that I don’t even know when I’ve fallen underneath his spell—the one that makes me fall in line with him.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“Jacob’s injuries and finger placement on the gun are all consistent with an attempted suicide.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“This is why we need to stay off social media. Reading all that garbage makes us too jumpy.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“Andrew’s in love with another woman. I still can’t bring myself to say it out loud. Not to Kendra or anyone else. I’m too ashamed, even though I didn’t do anything wrong, but his sin has already become mine. I never noticed anything going on with him in the same way I never noticed anything going on with Jacob. How long has my entire life been a lie?”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“We’re not on the same team. It’s never occurred to me that we weren’t on the same team, even when Paul hinted at it the other night. What else does Detective Locke know that he’s not telling us? More importantly, why is he hiding it?”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“I’m coming apart at the seams. My emotions are shredded.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“The sounds he makes during his dreams don’t sound human.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“Nobody ever talks about the logistics of leaving, like getting out of an abusive relationship is simply working up the courage to go.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“He scoffs at me. “Of course she needs to be prepared. We’re not going to let this incident ruin any of our lives.” My insides recoil like they’ve slammed into a wall. Incident? That’s what he’s calling this? One of Caleb’s best friends is dead, and the other one is in a coma. We step around their imaginary bodies in our family room. Caleb’s life will never be the same. Ever. “You’re right,” I say and plaster the good-wife smile on my face. “I don’t know what I was thinking.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“Suicide contagion is a real thing in teenagers. Having someone close to you attempt suicide increases your risk. It’s such an awful term. Suicide contagion. Makes it sound like an infectious disease. One that’s already contaminated us.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“Every fear I’ve had over the years—each terrorizing thought, every agonizing image of something awful happening to one of my kids—doesn’t even touch the utter devastation in my being. And life will go on without him. That’s the part I hate the most. It can’t. It must stop.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“Becoming a mom birthed my biggest fear—losing him. Sawyer marked my entrance into motherhood.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends

“Something else happened that night, but I don’t have time to figure it out. My job is taking care of Jacob. Detective Locke’s job is figuring things out. I wish he’d let me get back to mine and start doing a better job at his.”
― Lucinda Berry, The Best of Friends