One Year Gone Quotes

“Stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the doctors said. It had come out of nowhere. And it had come fast, and it had come strong, and while your mother was encouraged to start treatment, you could hear the truth in the doctors’ voices that there wasn’t much time left. That was when your father decided to show his true colors. He packed a single suitcase and walked out the front door and never came back.”
― Avery Bishop, One Year Gone

“But the problem with brave faces is that they don’t last forever; eventually they fade, and the pain and fear beneath peek through.”
― Avery Bishop, One Year Gone