“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
“And the boys were behind me, a tide-wall of laughter and yelling, hugging my legs, tripping and grabbing, leaping, spinning, stumbling, roaring, shrieking and the boys shouted I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU and their voice was the life and song of their mother. Unfinished. Beautiful. Everything.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“Encountering our dialect during those years was always disconcerting, provoking in me, and with equal force, both fear and longing.”
― The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
― The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
“It represented, in moments of desperation, the possibility of finally cheating myself out of exile.”
― The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
― The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
“I remember being scared that something must, surely, go wrong, if we were this happy, her and me, in the early days, when our love was settling into the shape of our lives like cake mixture reaching the corners of the tin as it swells and bakes.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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