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“Wren could not easily walk away now, because she had lingered past the point of invisibility. Her identity was crystallized to these people, and once she allowed herself to become solid to other human beings, she would be seen. After being seen, Wren risked being known, and being known came with the risk of loss. Even this small interaction cost her too much.”

Fear Loss Risk Loneliness Being Known

Book:Shark Heart

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“Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Shark Heart

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“How, since the loss, Wren looked at her hands first thing every morning and pretended they were her mother's hands—hands that never left her, hands that lived on in the foggy transition between sleeping and waking.”

Hands Loss Grief

Book:Shark Heart

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“In their innocence, they failed to grasp the labor of losing a partner, how the tasks of simple existence would become logistical feats and one person's burden.”

Love Romance Loss Grief Burden

Book:Shark Heart

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“Wren missed her mother most at times like these, when she felt powerless and had no idea what to do. She looked at her hands as if an answer were written upon them.”

Hands Loss Grief

Book:Shark Heart

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“Wren was disgusted with herself and then devastated. His work could no longer be discovered. She had lost him all over again.”

Book:Shark Heart

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“With this private tradition, there was no need to sit awkwardly at another mother's table with a seven-dollar greeting card, wondering what to do with her hands, what to do with her heart.”

Loss Mother S Day

Book:Shark Heart

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“She took a northern detour because returning home felt like a commitment to a life that could go on without him.”

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“Did she not see how the man she married was already irretrievable despite himself? Lewis hoped she wouldn't be the last to know.”

Humanity Loss Marriage Loss Of Self

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart