amelia-hurricane-shepherd:

“That’s such a crock.  Look, I appreciate–   Thanks for the
offer, but unless–    Unless you can bring her back, there’s
not really anything you or anyone else can do here.  I just–
I need   s o m e t h i n g  –  anything to just let me breathe
just for a second. Because I don’t know how to survive this
– not again. Like no matter what I do, I just– I choke. So I
can’t. I can’t just– There’s nothing you can do. Everything
hurts.”

“I  get  that. But if there’s one thing I learned after
Henry died, it’s that there’s no use clinging on to
a  m e m o r y .  I  know  you want her back; I do
—  but  it’s  only going to hurt you more when all
your  wishes come to nothing. I wasted so much
time holding on to his ghost  —  time that Henry
never got to have  —  and  I’m  always  going to
regret  it.  But I’m done with letting my life go  to
waste  now,  and  I’ve only gotten stronger for it.”