I have a new favorite author. She's Julie Buxbaum. I simply love her book. As I was reading the book, my emotions can be likened to a roller coaster. I laughed, cried, fumed, then laugh, and cried again. But mostly, I remembered my grandparents while reading the book.  
Five star for the novel The Opposite of Love by julie Buxbaum!

" Maybe the aftermath of loss-- the crumbs of memory--has, in some ways, scarred me more than the loss itself."

" If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, then it must be a freaking duck, right? But we weren't a freaking duck."

" We looked like one, and we acted like one, but we weren't like one."

" No, you're my fucking hero. Because you're brave. You actually have the courage to go after what you want. You're not settling just because the rest of the world tells you to. You know how few people can actually say that they live by their own rules? The rest of us just walk araound afraid all of the time and do things because we assume we have no other choice."

"He is someone who operates in absolutes."

"Because, over time, normal defense mechanisms can hold us back from living our lives."