Susan's Reviews

“Grief is a thing best shared.”
― Prince Harry, Spare

“I'm building a home to live the rest of my life in, on the grave of everything that came before... On solid ground. Because that's what we all do, isn't it? We're not just matter. We're not fucking stars in the cosmos. We're one human life stacked on top of the traumas and the tragedies of another.”
― Cedar Bowers, Astra

“You can buy anything under the sun, but when you scavenge and recover an item of value, or when you work really hard and build something that's tangible, that's lasting, there's something more satisfying.”
― Cedar Bowers, Astra

“My mind still clung to the image of my wife. A thought crossed my mind: I didn't even know if she were still alive. I knew only one thing - which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
I did not know whether my wife was alive......but at that moment it ceased to matter. There was no need for me to know; nothing could touch the strength of my love, my thoughts, and the image of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I would still have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of her image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. 'Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.'
This intensification of inner life helped the prisoner find a refuge from the emptiness, desolation and spiritual poverty of his existence, by letting him escape into the past.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning