"Dear Zoe" Quotes
young adult | 5 pages | Published in NaN
On September 11, 2001, far from either New York or Washington, Tess DeNunzio loses her three year-old sister to a hit-and-run driver. With the eyes of the world elsewhere, Tess's small tragedy is lost in the context of a national one, trapped in what she comes to perceive as an impenetrable silence. Dear Zoe is her attempt to break that silence. Part love letter, part coming of age story, part confession, Tess's story lets us eavesdrop on the intimate conversations that force her to articulate her loss, confront her guilt and, ultimately, confirm the healing power of love. In the most authentic female voice created by any male author since Wally Lamb, Tess DeNunzio will break your heart, then put it back together again.
| ISBN_13: | 9781565119420 |
Quotes
We live in a world where we’re all supposed to be okay all the time, and that’s not how it is.
You can’t change what you’ve done, but you can change what you do. That’s the only thing that’s in your control.
Sometimes things that are important to us are the hardest things to talk about.
You can’t make everything okay, and you can’t make everything right. But you can make some things better. A little better is better than nothing at all.
It’s okay to not know what to do. We’re all just making it up as we go along.
Some things are worth holding on to, even if they hurt.
We don’t always get to choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we respond.
It’s amazing how we can feel so close to someone who’s no longer here.
Sometimes the things that seem small are actually the biggest things of all.
We all have to find our own way to say goodbye.
