I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.