“Don’t cry about it. Write about it.”— Crystal Woods Related Quotes “Sasha’s green eyes were right up against yours, the lashes interlocking. “In Naples,” she said, “there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they’d been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you thought, maybe they will.”…You opened your eyes, which you hadn’t realized were shut again. “what I’m saying is, We’re the survivors,” Sasha said….”Not everyone is. But we are. Okay?”— Jennifer Egan “As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running from this, tired of pretending that things were okay when they had never, ever been less okay.”— Morgan Matson “The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.”— Frank Beddor