"As Bright as Heaven" Quotes
A family navigates love, loss, and the Spanish flu epidemic in Philadelphia during World War I.
historical fiction | 387 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
Grief has no expiration date, no time stamp, and no right or wrong way to do it.
Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive... it's the thing that saves you.
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.
The past is always with us, he has said, and it is up to us to find a way to make peace with it.
Sometimes we have to let go of who we are in order to embrace who we can become.
In the end, the beauty of life is in the living of it, not in what we accumulate or what we accomplish.
Some things are meant to be, even if they do sometimes go off course.
Apologies can be powerful, but they don't always make things right.
Life is a tapestry of moments both big and small, woven together by the threads of our choices.
Sometimes the things we can't change end up changing us.





