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“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
“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
“This is all my fault for not moving homes or cities, for not taking certain jobs or marrying certain men, for looking backward all the time when I should be looking forward. I dwell too much. I hold on to things I shouldn't, to people I shouldn't. If you don't change, change will find you in its most unruly form. It will press down on your vulnerabilities until they squish out the edges. Life needs volunteers or else it will start calling on people at random.”
― Grief Is for People
― Grief Is for People
“When they hear I teach first grade, they invariably picture my kids like a litter of puppies in a pet store window, cute and nearly brainless. Let me tell you. My kids are brilliant. Never underestimate children. I don't teach to their minds. Or their hearts. I teach to their spirits, and not one child has failed me. Ever. I mind-boggle them by reminding them they are made from the remnants of star-dusted constellations. When I tell them this their eyes sparkle to prove it.”
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Erin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
687 books
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71 friends
438 books
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167 friends
169 books
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109 friends
1,211 books
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5 friends
253 books
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115 friends
455 books
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2 friends
2 books
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35 friends
67 books
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69 friends
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