Gail Caldwell Quotes
Top 23 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gail Caldwell
Gail Caldwell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.
The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
Memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear ...
The real trick is to let life, with all it's ordinary missteps and regrets, be consistently more mysterious and alluring then it's end.
Death is a divorce nobody asked for; to live through it is to find a way to disengage from what you thought you couldn't stand to lose.
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.