… we who have had our travel plans disrupted and rerouted via the valley, we recognise each other. even from far off. even in our silence, we can tell who colours beyond the rules and the walls, and all over the straight lines that keep us from seeing the light inside each other. Liezel Graham

I think once you’ve felt grief, it’s hard not to catch someone else’s. Emily Henry

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk. Doug Larsen

We are defined by whom we have lost. Anna Quindlen

We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, those two, housed as they are in the same body. Mary Oliver