Claire Bidwell Smith

“When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.”

“...the only thing really worth doing in this life is giving love to everyone around you.”

“I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.”

“I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.”

“We must learn to live in this world, because we have no other choice. What we do have a choice in is how we choose to live. We can remain gray and immobile in the wake of our losses or we can open ourselves up to the world, let the sunshine in, fill our surroundings with heaps of flowers, and know that we loved someone truly and deeply.”