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The Long Goodbye

Book by Meghan O'Rourke · 6 quotes · Death, Dying, Grief

In this renowned mystery novel, the protagonist, a private detective, navigates a complex web of intrigue and danger. The story is known for its intricate plot and atmospheric setting.

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In this renowned mystery novel, the protagonist, a private detective, navigates a complex web of intrigue and danger. The story is known for its intricate plot and atmospheric setting.

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“I think: it's the holidays. There are parties. I'm young. I've spent the past two years going to oncologists. I'm going to put on my party shoes. And I do go to one party, and I leave when people start to dance around a pole. Later I start dating the man whose party it was, and he remembers being glad I came, and casually tells me how he flirted his head off that night. I'm not in your country, I think. I haven't lived in your country for a while.”

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“Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily, La Rochefoucauld wrote.”

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“So much of dealing with a disease is waiting. Waiting for appointments, for tests, for "procedures." And waiting, more broadly, for it--for the thing itself, for the other shoe to drop. Except in the waiting you keep forgetting that "it" will really happen--it's more like a threat, an anxiety: Will my love love me forever?”

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“But now it seemed to me that Hamlet was moody and irascible in no small part because he is grieving: his father has just died. He is radically dislocated, stumbling through the days while the rest of the world acts as if nothing important has changed.”

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“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.”

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“Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go, and yet letting go cannot happen all at once. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying, There is no solace, and also, This has been going on a long time.”

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