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“Mostly," she says, "I'm just really, really thirsty." The body and its petty demands! Grief is crashing over our heads like a tsunami, this miraculous soul is about to be homeless, but thirst is thirst. So I fill her night - this one, beautiful night, the only here and now we've ever got - with Sprite.”

Dying Grief And Loss

Book:We All Want Impossible Things

Source: We All Want Impossible Things

“We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at it? Like, you've been in a maiming car accident and then you're supposed to want to get back in the car? I mean, what?”

Children Sex Feminism Sad Pregnancy Conception Womanhood Loss Of A Child

Book:Sandwich

Source: Sandwich

“What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration. It’s in your stomach. Your spleen. Or it’s just your heart losing its mind.”

Loss Grief Pregnancy Loss

Book:Sandwich

Source: Sandwich

“Find me a mother whose heart is not carved into the likeness of her children.”

Book:Wreck

Source: Wreck