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"Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. Until now there had been every urgent reason to obliterate any attention that might otherwise have been paid, banish the thought, bring fresh adrenaline to bear on the crisis of the day."

"Why do you always have to be right.

Why do you always have to have the last word.

For once in your life just let it go."

"In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control."

"I remember thinking that I needed to discuss this with John.

There was nothing I did not discuss with John."