19 Quotes by Cody McFadyen

You can love the ocean, and many do, but don’t expect it to love you back. It’s too forever.

This is the thing, I think often, that never occurs to you when you consider what it would be like to lose someone you love. That you would miss not just the flowers and kisses, but the totality of the experience. You miss the failures and little evils with as much desperation as you miss being held in the middle of the night. I wish he were here now, and I was kissing him. I wish he were here now, and I was betraying him. Either would be fine, so fine, as long as he was here.

One of the gifts of a long marriage is the ability to communicate anything – from mild displeasure to the meaning of life – with a single glance. It’s something you develop in the process of mixing your soul with your spouse’s, if you’re willing to mix your soul.

Grief is like that sometimes. Like water, it finds any opening, forces itself through any crack until it explodes, inexorable.

She doesn’t speak, and I say nothing more. We just stare at each other, letting the tears roll down our cheeks. That’s what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed.

The First Rule of Mom: Love. The Second Rule of Mom: Feed your offspring.

That’s what tears are for, after all. A way for the soul to bleed. Pg. 109.

Life is monstrous, but life is beautiful.

Most people can’t truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ways, from the beating of your heart, to the sun on your face, to the feel of the ground beneath your feet. It grasps you.