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Kerry Kletter

The First Time She Drowned

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  • Ferris Cuevashas quoted5 years ago
    part of being healthy is being able to hold and remember who people actually are instead of who we wish they were. It’s a daily struggle against a brain that tends to want to cling to fairy-tale hope, but it’s also the only way to guarantee a life surrounded by those who build rather than destroy. In the end, the loss is about letting go of what I never had in the first place.
  • Ferris Cuevashas quoted5 years ago
    Today, right now, I start over. A new me.
  • Diana Cathas quoted8 years ago
    part of being healthy is being able to hold and remember who people actually are instead of who we wish they were. It’s a daily struggle against a brain that tends to want to cling to fairy-tale hope, but it’s also the only way to guarantee a life surrounded by those who build rather than destroy.
  • Diana Cathas quoted8 years ago
    Liz says that’s the thing about life: we only have what’s directly in front of us and it’s easy to convince ourselves that’s all there is.
  • Diana Cathas quoted8 years ago
    It seems like something James would do, and the fact that I’ve thought of it myself comforts me, reminds me of how we keep people with us even when they are gone. It makes me think, too, that maybe the fact that I’m standing here, that I’m working toward being okay, means we can excavate and remove others who don’t feel gone enough. It’s a leap of faith, to do it differently. To learn a new way.
  • Diana Cathas quoted8 years ago
    “And I guess I just like being nice to you. Sometimes I get the feeling that no one has been nice to you your whole life.”
  • Diana Cathas quoted8 years ago
    Anyone up for a bong hit?
  • Diana Cathas quoted8 years ago
    champing at the bit
  • Diana Cathas quoted8 years ago
    Suddenly I don’t even care that I fell, because of that brief moment when I stood, and I wonder if this is what other people seem to have that I do not—this courage to fall because they have the memory of standing.
  • Diana Cathas quoted8 years ago
    I notice that I am smiling from such a deep place that my smile is just there on my face without my having to put it there. It feels like a discovery, this smile, as if I’ve pulled it up from the bottom of the seafloor like a piece of smoothed glass or a perfect white shell—something old and forgotten underneath all that water.
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