The Moorings of Mackerel Sky Quotes

“How do you deal with being sad when someone dies? You cry, you talk, you let it out. Those tears are all the love you had left to give. Grief is all the love you have left to give. So you let it out. Love will always connect you to those you lose.”
― M.Z. Emily Zack, The Moorings of Mackerel Sky

“She had been dead for him a long time before she fell.”
― M.Z. Emily Zack, The Moorings of Mackerel Sky

“Those tears are all the love you had left to give. Grief is all the love you have left to give. So you let it out. Love will always connect you to those you lose.”
― M.Z. Emily Zack, The Moorings of Mackerel Sky

“You go make a cup of tea. You see that the water boils. You see you can still boil water. You wait. At first, the water is too hot to drink. You wait again. For a moment, just a few sips—just a moment, the swiftest of time—the tea is hot but not scalding, sweet but not sugary, lemony, but not bitter. It is perfect for a moment, so you sip your perfect tea for a moment and look out your window at the waves and see that everything is still moving, but you are perfectly still. “It’s just a tiny accomplishment, a small thing. You realize, even as your body tries to turn itself inside out to bones and blood from grief, you realize you are still capable of making a good, strong cup of tea, that time passes, that”
― M.Z. Emily Zack, The Moorings of Mackerel Sky

“The hard cries are good—that’s the love we had yet to give them seeking them out.”
― M.Z. Emily Zack, The Moorings of Mackerel Sky

“It’s just a tiny accomplishment, a small thing. You realize, even as your body tries to turn itself inside out to bones and blood from grief, you realize you are still capable of making a good, strong cup of tea, that time passes, that the water cools. That life goes on. It will never be the same, but it still can be.”
― M.Z. Emily Zack, The Moorings of Mackerel Sky