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1 " When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive. "
― Jackie Kay , Trumpet
2 " My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation. "
3 " Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in. "
4 " Weather here in this part of the world is just as moody, just as subjective and disloyal, as people. "
5 " I know I am capable of loving to the full capacity, of not being frightened of loving too much, of giving myself up and over "
6 " The terrible thing about pain is that it doesn't matter, it still hurts. It hurts like hell. "
7 " Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. "
8 " Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don’t live inside it any more and it doesn’t rule me. "
9 " The heat comes off the music. "
10 " I am lying to myself. I am always lying to myself and I really must stop it. I am alone. My friends don’t know how to talk to me or write to me any more "
11 " Animals are luckier; they can bury their heads in sand, hide under their coats, pretend to have no head at all. "
12 " More than anything else, more than your body, or the food you eat, you are your teeth. Life is a journey from milk teeth to false teeth with fillings and crowns thrown in in between for relief. "
13 " Life, he told me, was like a fork of lightning. He could see exactly where one decision violently parted company with another and a new future flared up before him. "
