These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life. . Alice Sebold
About This Quote

When we lose someone close to us, we tend to look back on how much they meant to us before their death. This can be very difficult because it’s not easy to see the world the same way after our loved one has passed away. But, even though it’s hard to describe how much they meant to us, we make attempts. We try our best to remember every detail about them and use that memory as a way of remembering them forever.

This quote came from the book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was written before the author died and it shows how he looked back on his life with his father who had just died.

Source: The Lovely Bones

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