Iceberg Jennifer A Nielsen Quotes

Grief is like the flu, she said. It brushes by some, barely leaving its mark. For others, it will take hold, perhaps for a very long time before a person finds healing. I barely dared to look over at her. Sometimes, the flu wins.

Sometimes life gives us better than we deserve, and we repay that by making the most of the gift.

People are the same everywhere. Either they’ll accept you as you are or they won’t, but if they don’t, that says more about them as snobs than you as comin’ from poverty.

Over the next two hours, I would learn something about time. Something devastating. There are moments in life when time moves with its own will, not bound by any timekeeper's measure. It may speed up, passing so fast that life itself becomes a blur, a memory before it is a moment. On a different occasion, time may slow to a crawl, each second becoming an hour, a day, or a lifetime. Which means that time cannot be trusted.

Grief is like the flu,” she said. “It brushes by some, barely leaving its mark. For others, it will take hold, perhaps for a very long time before a person finds healing.