Bill Clegg Quotes

There are no words precise enough to describe how wide and empty the world is when you lose someone that matters to you as much as Penny did to me.

This is a half-life, a split purgatory where her body and mind coexist but occupy separate realities.

Judgement is often no more than a confession of ignorance.

[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code.

I knew I didn't want to be alone anymore.

All we can do is play our parts and keep each other company.

Wounds can sing a beguiling song.

Why is it only later that things begin to make sense?

Who had been fighting with someone they loved?
Going at it long enough to unleash the irretrievable words they knew to say only because they had been trusted to know what would hurt the most.

When you see someone every day for a while, you settle into a rhythm and you come to count on them even if for nothing more than the fifteen minutes each morning they spend sitting at your counter, on one of your stools, talking about the weather and giving you a big smile and thumbs-up when they sink their teeth into a poppy-seed muffin.

It's funny to think that the wind has a shape but it does. It becomes visible every once in a while - in rain being driven to the ground in sheets, or in the snow on the fields behind our house. I remember looking out the window of my room in the winter, watching the wind blow on the surface of the white fields, lifting and whipping the snow into spirals, and in a flash you could see the force that was always there come to life and reveal itself. I think it is this way with children and parents. They are always there and then suddenly through some shock or disappointment or great gesture or obscene the child sees this person who was there all the while - invisible to them beyond their function to provide.

The world's magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned.

And if the only thing you can do is show up, do it. Then do it again. And when it's the last thing you want to do and the last place you want to go, go. Just go. You have no idea who you might be helping just by sitting there or who might help you.

Some people, she decided, magically surface in these horrible moments knowing exactly what to do, which spaces to fill.