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Tanya Shadrick
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My forthcoming book The Cure for Sleep (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 20 Jan 2022) is full of short true tales of strange experience: mine and others’. All its themes relate in some way to threshold mo
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“What we have waited for too long, or possessed only in secret, or had for too short a while: how hard it is to walk through our days with a loss not apparent. To have survived endings that had no ceremony and called forth no condolences. That were bereft even of a grave or death certificate. Sadness without sign or symbol.”
― The Cure for Sleep
― The Cure for Sleep
“Yes, we do only have one life, so far as science and our registers of births and deaths go. Is it lived in places, to clock time or the sun and its seasons. And we live in bodies, with economic and political forces bearing down on us, always. No amount of self-sacrifice or selfishness lifts us completely clear. We are not, in this world, ever really free spirits.
But to keep living in it? Sometimes we have to see our worst hurts as little deaths, and believe in our ability to be reborn by them.”
― The Cure for Sleep
But to keep living in it? Sometimes we have to see our worst hurts as little deaths, and believe in our ability to be reborn by them.”
― The Cure for Sleep
“Where does it begin, our turn away from risk and adventure? Why do so many of us hide in routine, shrink from opportunity?
What I asked in that luxurious last minute of living, my fear disappearing into wonder even as I was laid awake on the operating table.
Where does it begin? What I ask again, in this story of my life before then, and since.
For if the events which wake us are sudden, what leads to a sleep of soul and possibility is harder to trace.
We have to go back through all the tales told to us (or by us) about the world and its workings: that bramble thicket in which we lost our will and way.”
― The Cure for Sleep
What I asked in that luxurious last minute of living, my fear disappearing into wonder even as I was laid awake on the operating table.
Where does it begin? What I ask again, in this story of my life before then, and since.
For if the events which wake us are sudden, what leads to a sleep of soul and possibility is harder to trace.
We have to go back through all the tales told to us (or by us) about the world and its workings: that bramble thicket in which we lost our will and way.”
― The Cure for Sleep
“Where does it begin, our turn away from risk and adventure? Why do so many of us hide in routine, shrink from opportunity?
What I asked in that luxurious last minute of living, my fear disappearing into wonder even as I was laid awake on the operating table.
Where does it begin? What I ask again, in this story of my life before then, and since.
For if the events which wake us are sudden, what leads to a sleep of soul and possibility is harder to trace.
We have to go back through all the tales told to us (or by us) about the world and its workings: that bramble thicket in which we lost our will and way.”
― The Cure for Sleep
What I asked in that luxurious last minute of living, my fear disappearing into wonder even as I was laid awake on the operating table.
Where does it begin? What I ask again, in this story of my life before then, and since.
For if the events which wake us are sudden, what leads to a sleep of soul and possibility is harder to trace.
We have to go back through all the tales told to us (or by us) about the world and its workings: that bramble thicket in which we lost our will and way.”
― The Cure for Sleep
“What we have waited for too long, or possessed only in secret, or had for too short a while: how hard it is to walk through our days with a loss not apparent. To have survived endings that had no ceremony and called forth no condolences. That were bereft even of a grave or death certificate. Sadness without sign or symbol.”
― The Cure for Sleep
― The Cure for Sleep
“Yes, we do only have one life, so far as science and our registers of births and deaths go. Is it lived in places, to clock time or the sun and its seasons. And we live in bodies, with economic and political forces bearing down on us, always. No amount of self-sacrifice or selfishness lifts us completely clear. We are not, in this world, ever really free spirits.
But to keep living in it? Sometimes we have to see our worst hurts as little deaths, and believe in our ability to be reborn by them.”
― The Cure for Sleep
But to keep living in it? Sometimes we have to see our worst hurts as little deaths, and believe in our ability to be reborn by them.”
― The Cure for Sleep
“It does not suffice for me simply to tell stories of extraordinary experience.
Ever since the first tales I heard from my mother, my passion has always been the study of cause and effect: what happens afterwards, next. How we change in response to sudden illness, oddly timed encounters, unsought gifts. Why so often we don’t, refusing to let ourselves be shaken, or moved. Or we react, but in ways that serve neither us, nor others.”
― The Cure for Sleep
Ever since the first tales I heard from my mother, my passion has always been the study of cause and effect: what happens afterwards, next. How we change in response to sudden illness, oddly timed encounters, unsought gifts. Why so often we don’t, refusing to let ourselves be shaken, or moved. Or we react, but in ways that serve neither us, nor others.”
― The Cure for Sleep
“Oh it is appalling what the body can endure. Its will to live, despite such damage. Our hearts lacking the rabbit’s rare capacity to simply stop and spare us from suffering.”
― The Cure for Sleep
― The Cure for Sleep
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