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> [“The real trick is to let life, with all it's ordinary missteps and regrets, be consistently more mysterious and alluring then it's end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/the-real-trick-is-to-let-life-with-all-it-s-ordinary-missteps-and/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

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## More by Gail Caldwell

> [“The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/the-other-thing-i-know-now-is-that-we-survive-grief-merely-and-surely/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/the-only-education-in-grief-that-any-of-us-ever-gets-is-a-crash-course/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/maybe-this-is-the-point-to-embrace-the-core-sadness-of-life-without/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/the-real-hell-of-this-he-told-her-is-that-you-re-going-to-get-through/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/i-d-confused-need-with-love-and-love-with-sacrifice/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/grief-doesn-t-necessarily-make-you-noble-sometimes-it-just-makes-you/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake that might have saved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/you-can-t-change-the-tale-so-that-you-turned-left-one-day-instead-of/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [“From the first winter afternoon in the Harvard ball fields, "Oh no--I need you" had become an admission and a clarion call--the tenet of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/from-the-first-winter-afternoon-in-the-harvard-ball-fields-oh-no-i/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [“Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part--time and space and the heart's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/most-of-us-wander-in-and-out-of-one-another-s-lives-until-not-death/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [“Everything about death is a cliché until you're in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/everything-about-death-is-a-clich-until-you-re-in-it/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/what-they-never-tell-you-about-grief-is-that-missing-someone-is-the/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/memory-is-both-the-curse-of-grief-and-the-eventual-talisman-against/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [“Counting on each other became automatic. When I found a sweater in Texas I wanted, I learned to buy two, which was easier than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/counting-on-each-other-became-automatic-when-i-found-a-sweater-in/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/i-know-now-that-we-never-get-over-great-losses-we-absorb-them-and/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

> [The flaw is the thing we love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-caldwell/the-flaw-is-the-thing-we-love/)

[Gail Caldwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-caldwell/)

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