He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu. - Anne Lamott

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart.

He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shine through like crazy, the brillian mind and humor, the depth of generosity, the intense blue yes, those beautiful hands.