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21 " Keith Fu, my department chair, dropped by my office. he brought me a latte. I'd just found a fortune cooking in my pocked and I showed it to Keith. Its said, I cannot help you, I am only a cookie. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , The Good Son
22 " What I learned at the end of my first week back at work after the holiday break was how rough at least some of that road would be. Keith Fu, my department chair, dropped by my office. He brought me a latte. I'd just found a fortune cookie in my pocket and I showed it to Keith. It said, I cannot help you. I am only a cookie. "
23 " Now I know that, when you lose a child, it’s not the same as losing a contemporary, even a beloved husband or wife. When you lose a child, you grieve as a child grieves, which is to say, you grieve backward. You don’t get better as time passes, you get worse. Time does not take you closer to acceptance, only further from the one you love. "
24 " After a certain span of years, a man who has no family of his own becomes if not dangerous, then impervious. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , Two If by Sea
25 " Don't ever let anyone tell you that knowing how you should be reacting to a loss has anything to do with how you react when it's your loss. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , The Breakdown Lane
26 " was picking my son up at the prison gates when I spotted the mother of the girl he had murdered. Two independent clauses, ten words each, joined by an adverb, made up entirely of words that would once have been unimaginable to think, much less say. "
27 " And it was that, the beyond-grief, the sealing-up of a mind still expected to produce order and plans, which she dreaded. "
― Jacquelyn Mitchard , The Deep End of the Ocean (Cappadora Family, #1)
28 " friable "
29 " It was that palpable sense of presence shoved up against the reality of absence, like hot against cold, that really threatened to buckle the whole mass. "
30 " irrevocably "