Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
Jenny Lisk
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Still standing. I think this is a pretty good description of where I was at this point.”
“Less than two weeks ago, my husband was perfectly normal ... and now he has a brain tumor? How can this be our life?”
“Have I said yet that we were lucky to be surrounded by so many amazing people, both near and far?”
“Thinking about how many years--decades, actually--I'd deferred my dream of learning to play the guitar, I find it remarkable that I finally took it up not long before Dennis got sick.”
“The question 'How are you' would usually throw me into an existential tailspin. It seems like such a simple question--but it would cause fits of uncertainty in me almost every time.”
“The laptop, to which I had been chained for so many years of corporate work, was becoming my lifeline to the outside world.”
“Someone mentioned that the Johnny Cash songs I was practicing were appropriate for Dennis. I guess that's lucky--because those are the only Johnny Cash songs I know.”
“No profound remarks are required. The simplest message--I'm here and I care--is all that's needed.”
“It breaks my heart now to remember that Megan wanted to give Dennis the gift she made at school right away--in case Daddy dies before Christmas.”
“If your kid goes to a therapist weekly, a peer grief group monthly, and a grief camp for a few days in the summer—which would be a lot of grief work, by the way—there are still somewhere around three hundred days in the year where it’s all on you, the widowed parent, to figure out what to do.”
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