Blanky Quotes

“All these moments, even the less pleasant ones, are snapshots we can never replace once they’re lost, and it leaves us wishing for just the slightest glimpse of them”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“I may have lost my mind for a time, but grief makes everyone crazy. Losing someone makes you lose yourself, makes you yearn for the impossible: one more day with the lost, an end to the pain, a cure for the spiritual malaise that eats you alive every morning you wake up alone. It makes you believe in wishes and other places.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“Blanky. Such an innocuous name for something that had now cemented itself as the locus of my grief and horror and rage.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“After all, if I could fix an old coat, then surely, I could find a way to sew myself back together.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“All these moments, even the less pleasant ones, are snapshots we can never replace once they’re lost, and it leaves us wishing for just the slightest glimpse of them if it means we can feel whole again.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“You say you can’t imagine what it must be like to lose a child. Let me make it easy for you. It’s the beginning of the end of your world.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“you must try to get on with things or the grief will destroy you. You must put away the reminders of loss to have any hope of surviving”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“I may have lost my mind for a time, but grief makes everyone crazy.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“full of dolls with babyfingers for eyes”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“Positive reinforcement to counter negative experience, because ultimately, nobody wants to face the bad things alone.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“When you’re circling the drain, worrying about direction is pointless.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“Do you ever stop to consider how seldom your significant other uses your name in daily life? For us it was always some term of endearment, like “honey” or “babe”, or even the more extravagant “sugar badger” or “manly mouse”. The only time that changed was during arguments when the strangeness of being called by your name left no doubt that you were in trouble.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“A strange One-Act play in the theater of dreams.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky

“Heaven is a construct fabricated by people who can't let go of those they've lost and who wish to relegate the notion of personal responsibility to a ghost in the sky”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Blanky