Embracing What Remains Quotes

“My beautiful painting of the future had been ruined as if someone had dumped water all over it, and the colors ran together in a muddled mess, and nothing was clear anymore.”
― Andrea Couture, Embracing What Remains: A Memoir

“It's not fair! My father spent his whole life helping people, saving lives, and now this, and no one and nothing will save him!”
― Andrea Couture, Embracing What Remains: A Memoir

“The lights in the seemed wrong. I needed to turn on more to brighten the darkness I could feel trying to extinguish the light, the darkness that was trying to convince me the sun wouldn't rise again.”
― Andrea Couture, Embracing What Remains: A Memoir

“He was like a little lost child at the end of a tunnel with a spotlight shining on him. He seemed smaller all of a sudden - weak, frail and vulnerable.”
― Andrea Couture, Embracing What Remains: A Memoir

“I felt as if I was in a house of mirrors where everything looked distorted and people run around frightened trying, to find a normal mirror to see what they are used to seeing”
― Andrea Couture, Embracing What Remains: A Memoir

“I gained a boy in my life that day, but I was slowly losing a man.”
― Andrea Couture, Embracing What Remains: A Memoir

“My mother was treading water. She was my father's life preserver while trying to maintain her own buoyancy. She needed a lifeboat to come rescue her.”
― Andrea Couture, Embracing What Remains: A Memoir

“Our relationship had started to shift. It was a moment that made me realize my dad probably needed me more than I needed him.”
― Andrea Couture, Embracing What Remains: A Memoir

“It was a little peek into my dad, the doctor, and the human.
He may not have remembered his own birthdate, but his heart remembered how to be kind.”
― Andrea Couture, Embracing What Remains: A Memoir