We All Want Impossible Things

“Everywhere, behind closed doors, people are dying, and people are grieving them. It's the most basic fact about human life—tied with birth, I guess—but it's startling too. Everybody dies and yet it's unendurable.”

Ashley has been best friends with Edith for her whole life. And now Edith is sick. Very, very sick. Dying. What is Ashley to do but to pack Edi up and bring her to a hospice nearby and spend all the time Edi has left together?

“Fly, be free! I want to say. I want to say, Stay with me forever! Come to think of it, these are the two things I want to say to everyone I love most.”

What a lovely, lovely book. About dying and death, but, also, about living.