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In Berlin evil came to them slowly and then all at once. The rules changed by the hour, the punishments grew worse, and the angel in the black coat wrote down so many names in his Book of Death there was no room for the newly departed.
“Another revelation: how much laughter is a part of grief. Laughter is tightly braided into our family argot, and now we laugh remembering my father, but somewhere in the background there is a haze of disbelief. The laughter trails off. The laughter becomes tears and becomes sadness and becomes rage. I am unprepared”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“Don’t leave your teen with the choice between obediently toeing the line or acting like a lunatic to exert some level of control over life.”
― Your Teenager Is Not Crazy: Understanding Your Teen's Brain Can Make You a Better Parent
― Your Teenager Is Not Crazy: Understanding Your Teen's Brain Can Make You a Better Parent
“Is it possible to be possessive of one's pain?”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“In truth, at first it is a protective stance, a shrinking from further pain, because I am drained limp from crying, and to speak about it would be to cry again. But later it is because I want to sit alone with my grief. I want to protect—hide? hide from?—these foreign sensations, this bewildering series of hills and valleys.”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
“It is instinctive my recoiling. I imagine the confusion of some relatives, their disapproval even, when faced with my withdrawal; the calls I leave unanswered, the messages unread..”
― Notes on Grief
― Notes on Grief
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