“Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.’ I”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“We were smack bang in the middle, years from the finish, taking nothing for granted. I”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain that is thrust upon us let no man slow or speed or fix.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“They offer me a space on the sofa next to them and the pain of them being so naturally kind is like appendicitis. I need to double over and hold myself because they are so kind and keep regenerating and recharging their kindness without any input from me. CROW”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“I missed her so much that I wanted to build a hundred-foot memorial to her with my bare hands. I wanted to see her sitting in a vast stone chair in Hyde Park, enjoying her view. Everybody passing could comprehend how much I miss her. How physical my missing is. I miss her so much it is a vast golden prince, a concert hall, a thousand trees, a lake, nine thousand buses, a million cars, twenty million birds and more. The whole city is my missing her. Eugh,”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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