Gail Caldwell said this quote

“ 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. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection. ”

Famous Quotes of Gail Caldwell

Famous quotes of Gail Caldwell from the classy quote

See all

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

~ Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell Death Hope Loss Recovery

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 world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.

~ Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell Death Grief

Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.

~ Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell Death Memory

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.

~ Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell Friendship Grief Memoir