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“Grief is selfish: we cry for ourselves without the person we have lost far more than we cry for the person—but more than that, we cry because it helps. The grief process is also the coping process and if the grief is frozen by ambiguity, by the constant possibility of reversal, then so is the ability to cope.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“Women were built to endure the rules men make.”
― The Bandit Queens
― The Bandit Queens
“For me, fiction is when research meets compassion; I believe this is often why facts don't change people's minds, but stories do.”
― The Bandit Queens
― The Bandit Queens
“It is an exhilarating and terrifying experience to walk the road of your ignorance. Learning, you learn, is not really a process of expanding your mind, but of watching it shrink against all there is to know.”
― Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
― Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions
“The two are not quite the same thing: Guilt revolves around feeling bad for what you have done; shame is feeling bad about yourself as a person because of what you have done.”
― The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
― The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
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