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“Now I like to pretend you're still a phone call away. I like to pretend I will see you when I visit. That we'll jest like old times about our shared secrets, about the memories that formed our bond” -Elizabeth Olushola Adeolu, For Femi #MTYFall18 @ElizabethAdeolu
“Watching the birds outside my hospice room in their full expression. Enjoying freedom’s flight, they mock me here unable to ascertain now such a precious gift of life’s freedom.” -Owen Wagg, Mocking Birds #MTYFall18
“Back home in bed he spills not beer but rusty tears for life’s fresh sap dried out by all the years.” -Linda Ankrah-Dove, Widow Passing the Time #MTYFall18
“I see it..in their faces, their mouths. The way surgeons scrub in, nurses talk, techs take vitals. Gloved hands reach out to us, dripping and unraveling. We accept those hands with our own bleeding fingers. We are broken as we fix the broken.” -Fae Kayarian, Help You #MTYFall18
“I used to run, I used to dance. I relished every odd romance. I used to act, I knew just how. I cannot bend to take a bow.” -Sally Weinraub, Closer #MTYFall18
“I can’t remember the names of the twenty-some drugs the attending physician enumerated, standing next to my husband’s bed, late that 10th day in the hospital...” -Meg Lindsay, Cancer Notes of a Caregiver Spouse: That First Stay in the Hospital #MTYFall18
“Lolling here in the midst of all this beauty, I feel a quiet exhilaration of the spirit and the body's affirmation of the indisputable fact that I, too, am an infinitesimal part of all this.” -Buff Whitman-Bradley #MTYFall18
“The life of the party..I am pretty sure that’s what I was this evening. That is, if you can call a widow meetup a party.” -Bonnie Neubauer, Life of the Party #MTYFall18 @NeuBon
“The waiting-place, just wider than a grave, contains the pain in your hand where the needle sticks.” -Connie Clark, In the Land of the Sick and Suffering #MTYFall18 @vicarofe
“I became driver, cook, nurse, second set of ears during doctor appointments, and single parent to our little girl. When it came time to go to the hospital, though, I faded into the background. I was not the patient.”-Katherine Krige,An Unexpected Gift #MTYFall18 @KatherineKrige
“Was I an unethical social worker?...Did crying at her graveside harm her son and daughter-in-law? I don’t think so. I would have preferred not to make a scene…but I don’t regret giving my love to someone who had given her love to so many.” -Peggy Hendry, Ruth #MTYFall18
“I pushed myself to get better, to ‘get back to it,’ to return to my life. Instead, I ended up wanting to kill myself. I had just survived cancer, but felt I had nothing to live for. Not my wife, my siblings, my friends....” -Michelle Mindlin, Through the Fire #MTYFall18
“The diagnosis added a new layer of chaos to an emotionally-charged chapter in our lives. Jay was determined to restore our marriage but deep wounds from a conflict with his sisters and mother continued to fester.” -Nancy Morgan, Betrayal #MTYFall18
“What I could not understand was that death was a painful event but birth a happy one. Was the parallel supposed to be in this ironic duality?” -Preeti Hay, The Parallels Between Birth and Death #MTYFall18
“Have you ever smelled the coming dark?...The way the dirt is overtaken by shadow and it holds its moisture close, making fragrant its cold stone?” -Danielle Speakman, The Speed at Which We Would Usually Rush #MTYFall18
“..scrolling through Facebook for answers was an odd way to spend one’s first moments of grief. But when Jessica’s profile morphed into a Legacy Page, my unease gave way to full-blown disgust.” -Monica Yancey, The Importance of Losing Touch... #MTYFall18
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“Later, I went to a healer from Iran…He…told me not to talk about the cancer, which turned out to be the best advice I got. ‘Talking about it just gives it energy,’ he said. ‘It makes your life revolve around cancer.’ -Martina Reaves, Less Than One Percent #MTYFall18
“And that may have been part of the problem...I always wanted more from her, but I adored my father. My mother and I danced around him like he was a hot rack of clothing at a department store sale.” -Nancy Nau Sullivan, Dancing with My Mother #MTYFall18
“I looked down and realized my khaki pants were totally rumpled....It became clear you can't get ready for this, you just have to show up and live it, but I did pack a black dress for the memorial service.” -Victoria Kaplan, The Birthdays #MTYFall18
“What I really want to tell him is that I was sure that he was my dead husband...I try to take in a deep breath but find myself shuddering, bursting into tears like a five-year-old kid. After a few seconds, I pull myself together.” -Susan Bloch, The Fall #MTYFall18 @monsue8
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