The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

What you know isn't nearly as important as who you know. Who will miss you. Who you will miss.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

I can't do this to you,' he said, drawing back. Emily put her hand on his and pulled the gun to her temple. 'Then do it for me,' she said.

Here's the insane thing about resuming your old life when it's nearly ended; it is business as usual. Your heart may be broken, your nerves may be shattered, but the trash needs to be taken out. Groceries must be bought. You have to fill your car with gas. People still depend on you.

How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a pair of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

DO you think it hurts to die?" Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.

The thing about death is that we're all terrified of it happening, and we're devastated when it does, and we go out of our way to pretend that neither of these things is true.

There are five things we need to say to people we love before they die…: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.