Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.

The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy) (ed. Ballantine Books, 2010) - ISBN: 9780345516862