Ann Hood

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

— Ann Hood

“Don't waste your one beautiful life," Vivien said softly.”

— Ann Hood

“Grief made people guilty. Guilty for being five minutes late, for taking the wrong streetcar, for ignoring a couph or sleeping too…

— Ann Hood

“all that was missing...was everything else? Ann Hood, the Knitting Circle”

— Ann Hood

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

— Ann Hood

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

— Ann Hood

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read,…

— Ann Hood

“It was a kind of duty you owed yourself that when anybody said come on son do this or do that you…

— Ann Hood

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

— Ann Hood

“She was always kind of sad, even when she smiled.”

— Ann Hood

“Grief is not linear. People kept telling me that once this happened or that passed, everything would be better. Some people gave…

— Ann Hood

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her…

— Ann Hood

No mother should lose her child.

— Ann Hood

I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when…

— Ann Hood

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.'…

— Ann Hood

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As…

— Ann Hood

When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of…

— Ann Hood

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

— Ann Hood

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven,…

— Ann Hood

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for…

— Ann Hood

“If you want to feel like ginger ale Claire, drink a ginger ale.”

— Ann Hood

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

— Ann Hood

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

— Ann Hood

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity…

— Ann Hood

“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

— Ann Hood