Elizabeth Edwards

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.