“She 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.… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“Maybe secrets are only told when you're trying to protect the real truth from coming out.” — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“I had wanted to get married, but I realized now that I never wanted to be a 'wife.” — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“She believes that her daughter was in agony and that she chose not to suffer; she needs to believe that through her death Kim… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“As I listen to the stories about those who suffered and ended their lives it seems to me that it isn't as if they… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“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 Bialosky Copy Share Image
“If there is a particular time that defined the clear yet inaudible sound of a life beginning to unwind, this was it, the moment… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“Suicides do not end their lives because they are weak, mentally ill, or depressed - though certainly they may be all those things. They… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“That'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?… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“There are certain things in life for which we can never be prepared.” — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
“If I had to describe what love meant, really, not in the abstract or the sentimental or the way I'd imagined it before, that… — Jill Bialosky Copy Share Image
