They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.
Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel (ed. Random House, 2011) - ISBN: 9780679605096