The kindest and most meaningful thing that anyone ever says to me is: Your mother would be proud of you. Finding a way in my grief to become the woman who my mother raised me to be is the most important way I have honored my mother. It has been the greatest salve to my sorrow. Cheryl Strayed

How would I live if I were exactly what’s needed to heal the world? Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen

There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable–about a word that goes silent in transit. Anne Carson

That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is. Gayle Forman

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. Mary Oliver