13 Quotes by Lynda Cohen Loigman

You just summed up the difference between men and women, sweetheart. Men kvetch, and women suffer in silence!

Small children don’t let you sleep; big children don’t let you rest.

As she stood before her door, she knew that she wanted a girl not only because of the clothes she could dress her in or the ribbons she could put in her hair. She wanted someone to laugh with, someone who could cry to her, someone she could comfort and understand. She yearned for a daughter for reasons she had not previously been able to explain. And now that she had the words to express her longing, she knew it would only be more difficult to ignore.

It wasn’t just tragedy that stripped you of control, Helen wanted to explain. It was the good things, too.

Ruth’s mother wore her anxiety like some women wore the wrong color lipstick – it was far too loud, and took forever to wear off.

Abe was a lucky man. He told himself that every morning while he dressed and every night before he went to sleep. Abe wasn’t religious but every day he thanked God for his beautiful wife, his four healthy sons, his brother and his business. Sometimes he left out his brother, but only when Mort was being a pain in the ass.

I have had some bad things happen, but then a lot of a lot of wonderful things happened to me too. An awful thing happened to you... but you mustn’t let it ruin the happiness that lies ahead for you, dear.

We always think our own grief is the worst – worse than everybody else’s. But the truth is, we never know for sure what the people around us are feeling.

Perhaps if the fathers of the two babies born had been present, they would have thought to shovel. But the storm had prevented their return, and neither had been home.