“Like a school of fish or a pride of lions or a murder of crows, a group of elephants is called a “memory.” A memory of elephants.”
― The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
― The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
“part of a crash of rhinos, or a stubbornness of rhinos. “Phew,” my mom says when she hears the good lymph node news. “I couldn’t bear checking out of this life without knowing you were going to be okay.” A gaze of raccoons. A rhumba of rattlesnakes. A float of crocodiles. A rafter of turkeys. A business of ferrets. An exaltation of skylarks.”
― The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
― The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
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