Stephanie Oakes said this quote

Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it.

~ Stephanie Oakes

For years, we had stood on opposite sides of a divide, calling across because we could never jump the distance. This was the moment we discovered that, if we both shifted our weight forward, if we abandoned our fear of the drop below, not looking down, we could touch the tips of our fingers together. And though it wasn't much, in that moment, it was enough.

~ Stephanie Oakes

When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed.

~ Stephanie Oakes

Jude used to try to make me laugh, and when I'd crack a smile he'd keep the joke going , like breath on an ember, making it grow into a fit of giggles that'd echo around the whole forest and make all the birds in the trees quiet.

~ Stephanie Oakes