“Someone once told me that death doesn’t happen to you, but to the people around you. It happens to the people left standing at your funeral, trying to figure out how the hell they’re going to live the rest of their lives without you in it. And perhaps that is what we must figure out— how to continue walking when Death strikes.”

                                                                                                      —  WendyClary, from “How to Keep Walking”

“Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgement. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.”

                                                                                      —  Nikita Gill, from “People Survive In Different Ways.”