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“Another revelation: how much laughter is a part of grief. Laughter is tightly braided into our family argot, and now we laugh remembering my father, but somewhere in the background there is a haze of disbelief. The laughter trails off. The laughter becomes tears and becomes sadness and becomes rage. I am unprepared”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Death could just come hurtling at you on any day and at any time, as it had with her.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“Did I ever tell you” had become my five favorite words. They signaled that I was about to be transported, carried on the magic of someone else’s words, into the past.”
― Genevieve Kingston, Did I Ever Tell You?

“To believe that life is far greater than this one wretched moment.”
― June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves