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“She knows that no single specific experience led to her loss of language.

Language worn ragged over thousands of years, from wear and tear by countless tongues and pens. Language worn ragged over the course of her life, by her own tongue and pen. Each time she tried to begin a sentence, she could feel her aged heart. Her patched and repatched, dried-up, expressionless heart. The more keenly she felt it, the more fiercely she clasped the words. Until all at once, her grip slackened. The dulled fragments dropped to her feet. The saw-toothed cogs stopped turning. A part of her, the place within her that had been worn down from hard endurance, fell away like flesh, like soft tofu dented by a spoon.”
― Han Kang, Greek Lessons

“members of our support team don’t need to understand every dark corner of our grief in order to provide us support.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“Impossible grief is grief that does not adhere to a social contract of justice or human rituals that have existed since the dawn of time.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

“Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that.”
― Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women