When We Spoke to the Dead Quotes

“she’s the absolute Birkin of mixed bags.”
― Ilise S. Carter, When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice

“Grief is a chronic illness. It flares, it subsides, it mutates and metastasizes; it remains in the blood long after the initial infection, waiting for its moment to return regardless of its host’s wishes and plans and treatments. There is no known cure. Which is not to say humankind hasn’t tried any number of fixes: keening, drinking, singing, therapy, wakes, pyres, and parties. It’s just that grief is stronger because it will always have the last word, because it has no words for us at all. Its power is in its silent finality.”
― Ilise S. Carter, When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice

“Grief is entropic: you can only change its form; you can never really conquer it.”
― Ilise S. Carter, When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice

“Grief is a chronic illness. It flares, it subsides, it mutates and metastasizes; it remains in the blood long after the initial infection, waiting for its moment to return regardless of its host's wishes and plans and treatments. There is no known cure.”
― Ilise S. Carter, When We Spoke to the Dead: How Ghosts Gave American Women Their Voice