Natalie Kusz Professions : Memoirist Born : 1962 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Natalie Kusz the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges. Natalie Kusz dying self fall Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul. Natalie Kusz family parent soul Like children in a schoolyard, they want to know what was my accident, how much did it hurt, and what did I look like afterward. ... I am not the only person I have known who has encountered emotional sightseers. Natalie Kusz emotional hurt children When one cannot be sure that there are many days left, each single day becomes as important as a year, and one does not waste an hour in wishing that that hour were longer, but simply fills it, like a smaller cup, as high as it will go without spilling over. Natalie Kusz wish time years Similar Authors Anna Dostoyevskaya memoirist Beverly Donofrio memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn memoirist Le Ly Hayslip memoirist Mark Vonnegut memoirist Patricia Hampl memoirist All Authors