This is grief. Overwhelming and insidious grief that refuses to be ignored or denied or temporarily tucked away.
“I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.”
― Long Walk to Freedom
― Long Walk to Freedom
“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
Joann’s 2025 Year in Books
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