Book quotes

One thing about loss--you decided whom to share it with. You could go around day after day and never give anyone a clue about what had been taken from you. You could hold it inside, a precious nugget of pain. Or you could say it out loud. When you trusted enough. When you felt like it.
--Naomi Shahib Nye from "Shoofly Pie"

In some ways, you could choose what you remembered and what you did with it. Memories you chose to treasure would never fly away. They were like an adhesive stuck to the underside of your heart. Maybe they kept your heart in your body.
--Naomi Shahib Nye from "Shoofly Pie"

This story was in The Color of Absence edited by James Howe