Blanchot Quote by Rabih Alameddine

“I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete trust in…

— Deirdre Madden

“There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.”

— Alice Walker

“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and…

— Michael Gira

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

— Hugh Leonard

“The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“If you are concerned for the future of our civilization, there is no more cheering sight than a boy or girl who is lost…

— Susan Cooper

“Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,”…

— Sol Luckman

“No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the passion for…

— Patricia Meyers Spacks

Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust…

— Laura Mullen

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” —Mark…

— Susan Wiggs