“Tucked inside the moments of this great sadness - this feeling of being punctured, scrambling and stricken - were also moments of the brightest, most swollen and logic shattering happiness I've ever experienced. One moment would be a wall of… — Emily Rapp Copy Share Image
“Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. [...] Ronan was mine but he… — Emily Rapp Copy Share Image
“Why are we so afraid of the body? Is it because it's a mess, unpredictable, mortal, unreliable? We take pains to perfect it, to… — Emily Rapp Copy Share Image
“And although I no longer identified with the stringency or dogma of organized Christian religion, I remained drawn to the compassion and sense of… — Emily Rapp Copy Share Image
“Tucked inside the moments of this great sadness - this feeling of being punctured, scrambling and stricken - were also moments of the brightest,… — Emily Rapp Copy Share Image
“You can, for just a moment, fuse grief like a bone, but the memory of the ability to bend lingers inside, like an itch… — Emily Rapp Copy Share Image
“The standards for what is "normal" have become so formalized and yet so restrictive that people need a break from that horrible feeling of… — Emily Rapp Copy Share Image
If we remembered everyday that we could lose someone at any moment, we would love them more fiercely and freely, and without fear- not… — Emily Rapp Copy Share Image
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