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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Never' has come to say. 'Never' feels so unfairly punitive. For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“How is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“I finally understand why people get tattoos of those they have lost. The need to proclaim not merely the loss but the love, the continuity. I am my father’s daughter. It is an act of resistance and refusal: grief telling you it is over and your heart saying it is not; grief trying to shrink your love to the past and your heart saying it is present.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

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