The Widows' Handbook Quotes

“Living in Greece I learned
why so many women wore black:
a year for parents, for a husband
forever, telling the neighbors take
care of me, I am weak with grief,
I have turned to ash inside.”
― Jacqueline Lapidus, The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“Our grief mirrors our love.”
― Jacqueline Lapidus, The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“Once
over dinner I told her, of course he loved you!
how could you doubt it?
and she burst into tears, But he died!”
― Jacqueline Lapidus, The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“no matter how prepared you are
you're never ready”
― Jacqueline Lapidus, The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

“She says I don't know what to say, as if
she'd been raised in the woods by
wolves.”
― Jacqueline Lapidus, The Widows' Handbook: Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival