Emma

“Why does no one teach us what to do with the deaths of others?
Why does no one teach us how to die, how we should die?”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Death and the Gardener

“Mark's expecting his first child, and he tells us he might not be present for the birth. As the only person who's birthed a baby, I'm stunned. And genuinely curious. "What would you be doing instead?" I asked him. Like, what in the world could possibly be more meaningful to him than the birth of his first child? He had no idea. Just "something more important might come up.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“It appears that after every death, just as after every birth, the world begins anew.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Death and the Gardener

“But what I’m seeing is that the more comfortable he gets, the less he cares. As his importance compounds, his regard diminishes.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism