" After Sy died, a friend of Edith’s who was also a widow gave her this advice about getting through the first year: Get up in the morning. Take a shower, get dressed, have something to eat. After that, you can spend the rest of the day in bed if you want to. It was a trick, of course. Once you’d gotten yourself up and pulled yourself together, there wasn’t much point in going back to bed. But that little lie was what sustained her. Eight magical words: You can go back to bed after breakfast. "

― Amy Stewart , The Last Bookstore in America