Ann Hood Quotes

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• In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother…
• I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to…
• I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to paint…
• My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned…
• Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.
• In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that…
• My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us…
• When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical…
• I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a…
• I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
• Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
• No mother should lose her child.
• Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.
• The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him.…
• love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.
• Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it…
• Don't waste your one beautiful life.
• 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 eyes. I wanted…
• After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite…
• There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I…

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