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“Words may fall short, but they cast long shadows that sometimes can reach the unspeakable.”
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
“When life is full of tasks, obligations, and events, time carries us, too swiftly it seems, for is it not our perpetual protest about life that there is not enough time for this or that? But those who complain about that - myself at different phases of life, too - forget how fortunate they are: Life does not guarantee that time has the capacity to carry us. Time flies, time is fleeting, but then there comes a moment when time, no longer nimble-footed, no longer winged, is for us to carry.”
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
“Thinking about my children is like air, like time. Thinking about them will only end when I reach the end of my life.”
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief? Fare you well. Had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. I will not keep this form upon my head When there is such disorder in my wit.”
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
“few weeks after James died, I wrote to Jane, a colleague who works in theater: “Our life seems to have entered the realm of Shakespearean dramas or Greek tragedies.” And she replied: “Your losses are indeed epic and unfathomably hard; no language of mine can meet that.” And yet life is still to be lived, inside tragedies, outside tragedies, and despite tragedies. Writing this book is a way to separate myself from that strange realm while simultaneously settling myself permanently into that realm.”
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
― Things in Nature Merely Grow
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