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""I stared at her [Nan], gone forever now, and thought there was a story, and the last person who might have told it was dead, and we had never thought to ask her" OUCH THAT HITS ME RIGHT IN THE GRIEF" — Mar 07, 2026 12:03PM
""I stared at her [Nan], gone forever now, and thought there was a story, and the last person who might have told it was dead, and we had never thought to ask her" OUCH THAT HITS ME RIGHT IN THE GRIEF" — Mar 07, 2026 12:03PM
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. ”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
― The Bell Jar
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”
― The Bell Jar
“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.”
― The Making of Americans
― The Making of Americans
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