Quotes from Kate Maloy

Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.

I saw in one flash that the most courageous thing a person can do is to love without being afraid.

I believe she's blown some dust off her heart.

For hours after Andrew had died on his way into life, she felt powerfully that he had come from unreachable realms with knowledge she needed urgently to learn. Yet there he lay, swaddled in her arms, looking entirely at peace and not at all like a failed emissary. His face was closed; she could read nothing in his blank, perfect features except her own loss. She had given birth to death, and she felt its claim on her. She held Andrew until he was cold and his chill entered her body and heart.

I promise, you will survive this," she had said. "Not only that, you will be glad to survive. You will love him forever, but you will learn things you could never have learned when you shared your life with him. You will become yourself.