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was through the dark waters of grief that I came to touch my unlived life.… There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive. Through this, I ...more
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Mary-Frances O'Connor
“Our loved ones are just as important to us as food and water. If I ask you right now where your boyfriend or girlfriend is, or where you would go to pick up your children, you probably have a pretty good idea of how to locate them. We use brain maps to find our loved ones, to predict where they are, and to search for them when they are gone. A key problem in grief is that there is a mismatch between the virtual map we always use to find our loved ones, and the reality, after they die, that they can no longer be found in the dimensions of space and time. The unlikely situation that they are not on the map at all, the alarm and confusion that this causes, is one reason grief overwhelms us.”
Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

Mary-Frances O'Connor
“In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and because you loved each other, that means when the person is no longer in the outer world, they still physically exist—in the wiring of the neurons of your brain.”
Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

Margaret Atwood
“In the end, we'll all become stories.”
Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories

Margaret Atwood
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

Mary-Frances O'Connor
“Grief emerges as distress, caused by the absence of a specific person who filled one’s attachment needs and therefore was part of one’s identity and way of functioning in the world.”
Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

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