“Lyssa thought she would talk to her mother about it, and then she remembered. She had to keep remembering, even after she'd seen the body and signed the paperwork and arranged a funeral. Somehow she'd expected the dying to be the worst part, that after it was over she could go home and tell some healthy living version of her mother about the terrible thing that had just happened to her.” DeathChangeLossGriefDyingMourningRemembering Book:The Office of Historical Corrections Source: The Office of Historical Corrections
“She wondered sometimes if it wasn't all pretense—if, when she shut her eyes and wished restitution upon the whole wounded parade of humanity, she wasn't really wishing away the world that created war and illness so that she might have a world in which there was room to feel sorry for herself.” ConscienceMourning Book:Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Source: Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self