Quotes by : Gail Caldwell

Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I....

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming....

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often....

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.....

Counting on each other became automatic. When I found a sweater in Texas I wanted, I learned to buy two,....

It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites,....

The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had....

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared....

We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy.