Brenda

“Turns out, in the opinion of most medical experts, your grieving process shouldn’t last longer than six months. And if you aren’t over it by then, there’s something clinically wrong with you. What the hell?”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“My clients were already in the process of dying and often had a certain clarity about things. Knowing that death was impending seemed to allow them to deal in absolutes—as if they had one last piece to fit into the puzzle of their life and they knew exactly where it went. There was a freedom in having no future to speculate about. But for most people, death was an unknown—an inevitable but nebulous event that could be minutes or decades away. And from my experience, the ones who preferred not to think about it while living tended to have the most regrets while dying.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“Funerals aren’t for the dead,” she insisted. “They’re for the people left behind to have closure.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“When someone has spent their years angry at the world, death just feels like one final cruel blow.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover