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Nina Riggs

(1977–2017) Writer

11 quotes in 15 categories

Nina Riggs was a writer.

Quick Facts About Nina Riggs

Born: March 29, 1977
Died: February 26, 2017
Profession: Writer

About Nina Riggs

[Wikidata] American writer and poet (1977-2017)... | [Wikipedia] Nina Ellen Riggs was an American writer and poet. Her best known work is her memoir, The Bright Hour, detailing her journey as a mother with incurable breast cancer. It was published shortly after her death. The book received critical acclaim. Riggs also contributed an article to New York Times seri

Quotes by Nina Riggs

“Here we are closer to something I am trying to understand: that openness to fear. We are hearts and stingers. We ride…

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“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, not concerned about it or—still less—my unfinished garden.”

Death

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“I am reminded of an image...that living with a terminal disease is like walking on a tightrope over an insanely scary abyss.…

Cancer

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“The drenched backyard full of runoff, and tiny, slimy, uncertain yard critters who had expected to remain buried in months of hard…

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“So many heads held up by hands.”

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“She is far from a hole in my life. She is an enormous presence”

Life

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“Sometimes I'm sad about everything; the way my grilled cheese sandwich tastes, how nice my socks feel, a song John is playing…

Grilled cheese

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“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in…

Life

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“My friends ask a new kind of question: How is today? I hope the pain is manageable today.”

Pain

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“Sometimes the most important thing is knowing when to quit. Sometimes being heroic is knowing when to say enough is enough.”

Enough is enough

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“For me, faith involves staring into the abyss, seeing that it is dark and full of the unknown—and being okay with that.”

Faith

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