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The Cure for Women
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Max Porter
“And the boys were behind me, a tide-wall of laughter and yelling, hugging my legs, tripping and grabbing, leaping, spinning, stumbling, roaring, shrieking and the boys shouted I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU and their voice was the life and song of their mother. Unfinished. Beautiful. Everything.”
Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter
“We will never fight again, our lovely, quick, template-ready arguments. Our delicate cross-stitch of bickers.

The house becomes a physical encyclopedia of no-longer hers, which shocks and shocks and is the principal difference between our house and a house where illness has worked away. Ill people, in their last day on Earth, do not leave notes stuck to bottles of red wine saying ‘OH NO YOU DON’T COCK-CHEEK’. She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone.

She won’t ever use (make-up, turmeric, hairbrush, thesaurus).

She will never finish (Patricia Highsmith novel, peanut butter, lip balm).

And I will never shop for green Virago Classics for her birthday.

I will stop finding her hairs.


I will stop hearing her breathing.”
Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“It is such a rare thing in this world to find someone who is not constantly trying to impress someone, be liked, or fill empty airspace with mindless chatter. A person who is completely, unapologetically okay with who they are and what they feel is like a beacon of light in the dark. As author Anne Lamott once said, “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
Michaela Chung, The Irresistible Introvert: Harness the Power of Quiet Charisma in a Loud World

Max Porter
“She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone. She”
Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter
“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project.”
Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

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