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Maria’s 2024 Year in Books
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A Motherless Daughter
Seventeen days ago I buried my mother. Her death was a shock, but expected. It came suddenly, but gradually. She died on a Wednesday night after laboring to breathe all day—May 8th truly felt like the longest day of my life. I watched in horror as her pain came flooding back between doses of Morphine.
Experiencing someone actively dying (what a stupid term) for six weeks felt like the highest form
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“A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will--over and over.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“People don't save other people. People save themselves.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“It was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected to her and pumping blood through her veins, but exposed to dangers she couldn't see: her heart in a box somewhere, in the open air, unprotected.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“Leonard’s being up early constituted a new change in his sleeping patterns, was part of the former change in his sleeping patterns, or indicated a beneficial development. She didn’t know if his perfectionism canceled out his loss of ambition, or if they were two sides of the same coin. When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“How we schedule our days is how we spend our lives.”
― Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life
― Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life
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