“I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill. But I'm also feeling all that I have in my life, which, includes what I have lost, as…”— Gayle Forman, Mia, amazon.com
“All night, this soft rain from the distant past. No wonder I sometimes waken as a child.”— Ted Kooser, amazon.com