“I remember after my mother died, a year or two afterwards, thinking, well you know, I’m lucky in a way because nothing as bad as this will ever happen to me again. And then I had children. And I realized that there is one thing worse than losing your parent, and that’s losing your children.”

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“…you know from having watched friends of yours who have gone through loss that it doesn’t tend to be a big muscle thing, that it’s not the wailing and gnashing of teeth. It’s those small disconnections from life, from energy, from happiness, that kind of subtle way in which people who have lost people they love are tilted away from the world.”

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