Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Gail Caldwell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.”
“What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”
“Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.”
“The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.”
“Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.”
“It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.”
“Grief is what tells you who you are alone.”
“Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.”
“Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.”
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Book Keywords:
memoir, grief, loss, friendship, death, sadness, hope, life, recovery
