“Your mother was the love of my life. Not everyone gets to have that. I did. Yes, I miss her, but I’m… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“Isn’t that an odd thing for a parent to wish for a child? That he would be less than what he is?” — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“When Alice was younger, her father had fashioned a rough mask from evergreen needles and lake grass glued to a rotten shell… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“I know you the way I know my own heart, the way I feel my own pulse. I know what your laugh will be,… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“You don’t know what it’s like to worry you’ll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they’re… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“Why do I seem to have this effect on women? They're around me and they cry.” — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“I always felt like half of my life was hers, but I wonder if she didn’t feel that half my disease was hers, too.” — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“Facts swooped like swallows, darting across her mind; there was a rush of pride in things still remembered. Singing was limited to the perching… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“Before too much longer I’ll forget her minute imperfections. That’s what you end up missing the most, those little faults. They burrow under your… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“He is a principled man, and compassionate, someone who will remind himself of your best qualities while struggling to forgive your worst. In short,… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“You can trust him to do what he says, a trait which becomes increasingly rare.” — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“People grieve in their own ways. If you’d for once stop worrying about what everyone else thinks and let yourself get close to someone,… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“I’ve found I still serve a purpose. I remind people to pray, to calculate the odds, to thank the fates, the gods, good karma,… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“She knew she was delaying the inevitable- trying to locate Agnete's address- but decided to make a list of things to buy first, looking… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“Alice haunted the mossy edge of the woods, lingering in patches of shade. She was waiting to hear his Austin-Healey throttle back when he… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
