“It was an amazing sight, that splendor alongside death. I felt something like the surge hit me, a wave of sorrow followed by an even bigger wave of exhilaration and gratitude. I felt alive in a way I hadn’t in years.”— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.comTagged: Death, Illness, Understanding Death, Trying To Understand Death
“I took her face in my hands and pulled her forehead against mine, and in that instant I felt our present and past selves in the room, the two of us in college choking back our emotions, a tsunami of love and longing and fear, as we slow-danced with our heads pressed together in a honky-tonk bar, pea…”— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.comTagged: Love, Growing Old, Growing Old Together, Memories, Love & Relationships
“Hospital time takes place in another dimension, in a subterranean sort of zone where the world outside feels unreal and remote, where it can feel like you’re wading through hip-high waves, salt water screwing up your vision and clogging your ears.”— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.comTagged: Hospitals, In The Hospital, Time, sickness, Illness
“You know the moon doesn’t have its own light, I told her. We see it because its surface reflects the sun’s light.”— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.comTagged: Sun, Moon, Moonlight, planets, orbit
“When she left, she told me that she had a feeling, so strong it was like a prophecy, that we’d reunite when we were older and had experienced all we’d missed out on by marrying so crazy young.”— Mary Taugher, narrativemagazine.comTagged: Coming Back, Returning, Finding Love Again, Marrying Young, Feelings