Gail Caldwell Quotes

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What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

Gail Caldwell
The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

Gail Caldwell
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course.

Gail Caldwell
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Gail Caldwell
That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.

Gail Caldwell
Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.

Gail Caldwell
Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

Gail Caldwell
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

Gail Caldwell
My idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.

Gail Caldwell
I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

Gail Caldwell
Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.

Gail Caldwell