Nicole

“I’m not sure if our modern secular world has the capacity to come up with a gentler way of dealing with bereavement.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days

“You taught me the courage of stars before you left, how light carries on endlessly, even after death.” Those lyrics are from a song titled “Saturn,” by Ryan O’Neal, who performs as Sleeping at Last. It is a song about a deathbed conversation, the imparting of wisdom from a dying person to a beloved survivor: that it is an extraordinary chance to have existed at all, a rare and marvelous happenstance to have lived and experienced consciousness. Even more rare and marvelous, in this riven, aching world, to have thrived. To have found love, joy, security, fulfillment.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days

“They only knew their small”
― Clarissa V. Militante, Different Countries

“In his writing he was always at his funniest, his smartest, his most thoughtful, and his most courageous and adventurous…. Prose so good it would make you laugh until you cried. I recognize now that his books are not the shade of him. They’re the quintessence of his soul, the distillation of a great adventurer and a good man.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days