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"But there's no word for a parent that loses a child. I've come to believe that the event is just too big, too monstrous, too overwhelming for words. No word could ever describe the feeling, so we leave it unsaid."--pp141-142

"I teach words that can take you to places that exist only in the imagination, introduce you to people so peculiar, so interesting that they can't possibly e real, yet they are, on the page. That's why I found it strange that no word exists for a parent who loses a child. If children lose their parents, they are orphans. If a husband loses his wife, he is a widower." Page 141

"It's for me not to speak of happiness or unhappiness--it provokes that swooning longing and lilac, that violet perfume, the chilly waters of the gentle tide in foam upon the sand. I don't want to provoke it because it hurts." -- pp 51-52

" Life is a punch in the stomach." -- p 74