We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our every moment.
Jill BialoskyIf I had to describe what love meant, really, not in the abstract or the sentimental or the way I'd imagined it before, that I'd say it was completely irrational, made up of so many opposites, the kind that couldn't exist without the other: bliss and sadness, courage and fear, adoration and disgust.
Jill BialoskyThat's why I'm compelled to tell this story - don't we all have one secret that has shaped us we are burning to reveal? - to convince myself that I'm entitled to my own life.
Jill BialoskyMaybe secrets are only told when you're trying to protect the real truth from coming out.
Jill BialoskyWe do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair -- when our words are empty.
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To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and the light the stars gave off was their brightness.
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I am thinking about you, I say to her. Can you hear me?
Jill BialoskyThere are certain things in life for which we can never be prepared.
Jill BialoskyI suppose no one is truly dead when we go on loving them.
Jill BialoskyShe believes that her daughter was in agony and that she chose not to suffer; she needs to believe that through her death Kim now lives on a higher plane. "Why else are flowers so beautiful?" she says to me. "why is the sky such a perfect shade of blue? There has to be more than the here and now.
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