I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I don;t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.

You don't ever do something just because it makes you feel good?" The assistant shrugs. "Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris.

moving on means we have to protect ourselves.

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.

It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint.

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.

Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.