"A mother is beyond any notion of a……" — Meghan O'Rourke

"A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother."

— Meghan O'Rourke

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51 Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke

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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in…
One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the…
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where…
Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.
Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.
Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the…
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest…
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics.…
And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like…

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