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“I plucked one feather from my hood and left it on his forehead, for, his, head.
For a souvenir, for a warning, for a lick of night in the morning.
For a little break in the mourning.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
For a souvenir, for a warning, for a lick of night in the morning.
For a little break in the mourning.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“I was traumatized, but my vocabulary was improving.”
― Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
― Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
“One boy lost the treasured lunchbox
note from his mother saying 'good luck'.
He cried, alone in his room, then threw
a toy car at his father's framed Coltrane
poster. It smashed. He felt better. The
father dutifully swept up all the glass and
understood.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
note from his mother saying 'good luck'.
He cried, alone in his room, then threw
a toy car at his father's framed Coltrane
poster. It smashed. He felt better. The
father dutifully swept up all the glass and
understood.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“Once upon a time there were two boys who purposefully misremembered things about their father. It made them feel better if ever they forgot things about their mother.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“We will never fight again, our lovely, quick, template-ready arguments. Our delicate cross-stitch of bickers.
The house becomes a physical encyclopedia of no-longer hers, which shocks and shocks and is the principal difference between our house and a house where illness has worked away. Ill people, in their last day on Earth, do not leave notes stuck to bottles of red wine saying ‘OH NO YOU DON’T COCK-CHEEK’. She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone.
She won’t ever use (make-up, turmeric, hairbrush, thesaurus).
She will never finish (Patricia Highsmith novel, peanut butter, lip balm).
And I will never shop for green Virago Classics for her birthday.
I will stop finding her hairs.
I will stop hearing her breathing.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
The house becomes a physical encyclopedia of no-longer hers, which shocks and shocks and is the principal difference between our house and a house where illness has worked away. Ill people, in their last day on Earth, do not leave notes stuck to bottles of red wine saying ‘OH NO YOU DON’T COCK-CHEEK’. She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone.
She won’t ever use (make-up, turmeric, hairbrush, thesaurus).
She will never finish (Patricia Highsmith novel, peanut butter, lip balm).
And I will never shop for green Virago Classics for her birthday.
I will stop finding her hairs.
I will stop hearing her breathing.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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