"Somewhere lodged in the lung of a New Yorker is an atom that once belonged to a man who went to work two years ago and never came back. His widow dreads today, because people will be coming and calling, and she'll have to insist that she's okay. It's hard but last year was harder. The kids will be sad and distant, but they take their cues from her, and they sense that it's hard - but that last year was harder. But what really kills her, really really kills her, is knowing that the youngest one doesn't remember daddy at all anymore. And she's the one who has his eyes. Two years in; the rest of our lives to go."
--Written in a New York Paper on 9/11/03
"All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest."
--Sarah Dessen
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
--John Vance Cheney
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
--Douglas Coupland
--Written in a New York Paper on 9/11/03
"All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest."
--Sarah Dessen
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
--John Vance Cheney
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
--Douglas Coupland
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