"The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway."
"...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath."
"I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me."
"There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."
"I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room"
"I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out."