Benefit of the doubt Quote by Ednah Walters

“Now that I think of it, maybe she loves him because all his problems give her so much to pray about, and when you're…

— Ruth Ozeki

“His mother is dead, yet she has never not been, in theory, at his shoulder. He wants her not to have known and suffered…

— Graham Swift

“She'd say amazing things sometimes. "Once you're alive," she'd say, "you cant ever be dead.”

— Tim O'Brien

“When he died, I think she did, too, it just took longer time for her body to realize her heart and mind were already…

— Jasinda Wilder

“And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery,…

— Georges Bernanos

“With the last months spent preparing to face this darkness, it was improbable that the end of her story would be a happy one.…

— Jess Bowen

“Her eyes moved to the ceiling for a moment, maybe looking away from memories she didn’t want to see. Maybe willing back tears. “I…

— Barry Eisler

“There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you…

— Jesse Andrews

“This is why a woman makes things up: Because when she dies, those lives she never got to are all going down with her.…

— Lorrie Moore

“I know she isn’t coming back, but I still think that she will. Nothing can make that go away. We figure out what death…

— Lauren DeStefano

“The long ghosts are walking the halls. When my mother died I felt expanded, slowly, durably, over time. I felt suffused with her truth,…

— Don DeLillo

“Try to be thoughtful, don't make the poor man say it; see how human he is, he has children of his own, it is…

— Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno