“How did other women come to terms with losing a husband? Did they pick up the pieces of their shattered selves and glue them back together, sealing the joints with metal to prevent them from falling apart again at the slightest whiff of remembrance, motes of a residual ghost perfume, familiar and overwhelming in a just-vacated elevator, a familiar stretch of shoulder and head in a distance, in a crowd, snatches of a song that had been playing when….” DeathLossGriefGrievingBereavement Book:More Things in Heaven and Earth Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“When you lose a spouse, no one tells you about the other loss, the loss that the body must deal with. That of a body against a body. Of sweat, of scent, of bliss.” BodySexLossHungerBlissSweat Book:More Things in Heaven and Earth Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“Grief is grey and damp, a marshland of emotions that suck you in, tendrils of mist that caress you, asphyxiate you. Grieving is the journey you do alone, a penitence, a pilgrimage, an affirmation of being alive in the face of death that shadows us, every waking moment. Grief was the country I was on a pilgrimage within, searching for redemption from my grieving.” DeathLossGriefJourneyEmotionsMourning Book:More Things in Heaven and Earth Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth