A Still Life Quotes

“The older you get, the harder it is to experience a singular grief. Instead, when loss comes again, it doesn't bring something solid all the way through or isolated, it brings you a Russian doll. Loss comes; a new layer of grief forms. And instead of staying still, it opens, and out all the others pour, popping into their composite forms until you are sitting surrounded by an eager, bleeding crowd of them. Grief is cumulative and to feel one kind is to feel at least a little of them all, renewed. When I wake from the shock, there it is, right here in my hands. All my past losses, nestled.”
― Josie George, A Still Life: A Memoir

“I will never be the same again because now I know that what we turn away from will die; what we turn towards will grow. It’s as simple as that. What a marvellous, dangerous opportunity it is. It could save us or kill us. It has saved and killed me in turn.”
― Josie George, A Still Life: A Memoir

“It was the cruellest and worst and most necessary thing I have ever done, and I have never regretted it, not once.”
― Josie George, A Still Life: A Memoir