Emotional Rescue Quotes

“People, I want to tell you Just how your friend will do They will wait to get your secret And dig a pit for you”
― Ben Greenman, Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life—With a Soundtrack

“We’re sorry to bother you at a time like this,” Drebin says. “We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn’t dead then.”
― Ben Greenman, Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life—With a Soundtrack

“I learned by trial and error. Are there other ways to learn? If so, someone should have said something. My companions in that trial and error were songs, for the most part.”
― Ben Greenman, Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life—With a Soundtrack

“the bleakness of life takes many forms, and that none of those forms should be permitted to obscure the central mission, which is to record it honestly, powerfully, and continuously.”
― Ben Greenman, Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life—With a Soundtrack

“When I’m with you, I am in the light where I cannot be found.” The year ended. The last year in which Michael Jackson was alive on earth ended. We celebrated the new year. He remained in the light where he could not be found.”
― Ben Greenman, Emotional Rescue: Essays on Love, Loss, and Life—With a Soundtrack