Gail Caldwell Quotes
Top 23 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gail Caldwell
Grief is what tells you who you are alone. 
That sometimes the smartest person in the room is the one who says, "I have no idea. 
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window. 
Gregarious hermit. I wanted the warmth of spontaneous connection and the freedom to be left alone. 
That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her. 
Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days. 
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part. 
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. 
The territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace. 
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. 
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. 
The flaw is the thing we love. 
The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it. 
Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear ... 
We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy. 
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive. 
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. 
Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.