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Maxine nodded. “It must be so hard,” she said. “The whole thing with Eli.” “It’s the worst,” I said, taking an especially deep sip of wine. A book Charlie and I had read, Surviving Schizophrenia, called it “the death of a living relative.”
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“As Ms. Miyamoto probably told you, in the end, rather than death, she chose to start a second life in the city of Sendai. The expression she used when describing her life to me was of “a life that was equal parts remorse and gratitude.” On the one hand, she felt that, having abandoned her husband and son, she’d no right to go on living. On the other hand, she felt acutely grateful that the people she’d encountered in this unfamiliar place were so willing to help. I suspect—and I don’t think I’m imagining things—that the act of leaving home actually helped alleviate the symptoms of her depression.”
― The Final Curtain
― The Final Curtain
“The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk,”
― The German Wife
― The German Wife
“I suppose regret is an expression of humanity. Without regret . . . where does that leave us?”
― The Hidden Child
― The Hidden Child
“For as long as I can remember, I have felt a vast weight resting on me, a sadness that has always been part of me yet doesn’t belong to me.”
― Lying Beside You
― Lying Beside You
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard”
― Mad Honey
― Mad Honey
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