Nobody warns you that grief doesn’t step aside politely when a crisis arrives.

It just sits down next to every practical thing you have to do.

You can be so hollowed out by loss you can barely breathe and still have to recite bank details.

You can miss a man with your whole body and still keep exact track of where an intruder set down a folder.

Life does not wait for your heart to be ready.

“Adeline,” Miriam said.