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- Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or…
- Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
- I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
- Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
- Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.
- I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past…
- I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first…
- A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in…
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