"Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'And so we did."
"Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it."
"I will bear this grief, I will endure it. I will reach a point where it doesn't kick me down an abyss whenever I turn my back on it."
"How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?"
"I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully."
"A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining."
"How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like."