“We learn to live with the sadness like a great, lovely companion, because it’s a soft sadness that softens the heart and makes you open to everything.”
― Once More We Saw Stars
― Once More We Saw Stars
“In "Goodbye to All That," Joan Didion writes, "It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends." ... this resonates. I remember every detail of my first ... but not of my last because I didn't know it would be my last.”
― Grief Is for People
― Grief Is for People
“The line between insanity and mysticism is thin; the line between reality and unreality is thin. Liminality as a spiritual concept is all about the porousness of boundaries.”
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
― The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
“If anything had happened to Ula, I would rip Saenunos’s eyes from their sockets and wear them for earrings.”
― Queen of Oak
― Queen of Oak
“Grief at its peak has a terrible beauty to it, a blinding fission of every emotion. The world is charged with significance, with meaning, and the world around you, normally so solid and implacable, suddenly looks thin, translucent.”
― Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
― Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir
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