135 Quotes by Julie Buxbaum

Just because you’re strong doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ask for help sometimes. Remember that.

Something happens when you turn sixteen, I think. Your parents become less your allies, more your biggest obstacles.

Perfect days are for people with small, realizable dreams. Or maybe for all of us, they just happen in retrospect; they’re only now perfect because they contain something irrevocably and irretrievably lost.

Now I don’t go anywhere except in sneakers.

She drives a red Toyota Corolla, license plate XHD893.

I am not alone. Not really. Just geographically isolated.

I think that’s what people do with the holidays. They wrap it up all neatly with a turkey and clever gifts and lots of eggnog and laugh and laugh, but at the end of the day there are always people missing from the table. And you have to either sit with those empty chairs and laugh, or you can choose not to come to the table at all. I would rather come to the table.

Every happy moment from now on will have the lingering, bitter, heartbreaking aftertaste of loss.

I think about Kit, who smells nice and whose nose is perfect. Not too big and not too small, just right. She’s a Goldilocks of a person.