“This idea inverts the logic of Elizabeth Bishop: our largest losses, it suggests, can help us cope with our smaller ones, by putting them in perspective.”
― Lost & Found: A Memoir
― Lost & Found: A Memoir
“The only cure for grief is to grieve. The only cure for hurt is to hurt. Every tear is a tribute. Every tear is a memory, every memory is a treasure.”
― Love Stories
― Love Stories
“Grief confuses us by spinning us around to face backward, because memories are all we have left, but of course it isn’t the past we mourn when someone dies; it’s the future.”
― Lost & Found: A Memoir
― Lost & Found: A Memoir
“Some people in life, Sue, are weather forecasters, whereas other people are the weather itself.”
― The Man Who Died Twice
― The Man Who Died Twice
“The things that look fixed in the world, child—mountains, wealth, empires—their permanence is only an illusion. We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives. From the perspective of God, cities like this come and go like anthills.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
Santa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Santa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Christian, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Self help, and Travel
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