Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Megan Slagter

The single breath we hold on the thinnest verge of sight: not there      there. A curve nearly naked, an arc of almost, a wisp of becoming … Kimberly Blaeser

There is no solution to pain, but there is so much beauty even now in the darkness … There’s still room for your laughter and beauty and joy. Even now. Frederick Buechner

You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive. Ellen Bass

A shadow is nothing, of course, which is to say it is also everything. The way my life is now steeped in the shadow of his life, the way the shape of him follows me wherever I go. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer