“No one is the first person to whom bad things have happened. Functionality is not the problem. The problem is that our capacity to handle something shocking in the short term can make things indistinguishable in the long term.”
― Grief Is for People
― Grief Is for People
“But as he reconstructs Zeno’s translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“The miracle of life is not that we have it, it’s that most of us wake up every day and agree to fight for it, to hold it in our arms even when it squirms to get away.”
― Grief Is for People
― Grief Is for People
“nothing seems to horrify people so much as the idea that you might rush the grieving process even as their tolerance for the topic dwindles—”
― Grief Is for People
― Grief Is for People
“She catches me and holds me so tenderly, and I know her. She is his mother, and she died so he could live. I understand it so simply now, it is a love that lives in the body but unlike the body it never dissolves. It lasts forever.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
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