Gail Caldwell Quotes

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• Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as…
• My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.
• What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just…
• 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 your…
• The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention…
• The flaw is the thing we love.
• The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.
• The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
• The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come…
• Grief is what tells you who you are alone.
• I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.
• I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.
• Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.
• Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
• What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
• It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue.…
• The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other…
• Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.
• It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.
• The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course.

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