Ruth Levinson Quotes

″‘I think you should read it, Ruth,’ he said to her. ‘It’s what he wants you to do. Read it aloud, so he can hear you.‘”

“After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”

“For it is one thing to declare one’s love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one’s dreams.”

″... having children-creating a family, so to speak- had taken on entirely new significance for her in the wake of her family’s losses.”

“You made me happy and you made me laugh, and if I could do it all over again, I would not hesitate. Look at our life, at the trips we took, the adventures we had. As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.”

“And you told me you wanted children. That more than anything, you wanted to be a mother.”

“With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure-despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.”

“I miss you this morning just as I have missed you every day for the last nine years. I’m tired of being alone.”

“Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.”

“Yes, I would become upset when you forgot to take out the garbage, but that is not a real argument. That is nothing. It passes like a leaf blown by the window. It is over and done and it is forgotten quickly.”

“This, my darling, is the last letter I will write you. You know what the doctors have told me, you know that I am dying, and that I will not visit Black Mountain in August. And yet, I want you to know that I’m not afraid.”