“While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from the inside out - the show the strange intensities that come along with it, the peculiar thoughts, the longing for that past - all the strange moments of thinking you glimpse the dead person on the street, or in your dreams.” ThinkingWayWritingPersonsMomentsShowsFeelingsDreamPastGriefStreetsStrangeResearchLongingBest WayYour DreamsIntensityPeculiarGlimpse Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got to be with that person. And the seeming loss of the past, which now feels forever out of reach.” FeelsKindPersonsSelfPastLossForeverSeemingEmbedded Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.” PersonsStillsBeliefHappenedOne Day Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
“I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.” PersonsSeemsRememberLostSupportGroupsBuiltEnvyEach DayRitualDevotedDesignationSupport GroupsJewish FriendsLost Person Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“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 the most.” PersonsMightLostLossAliveMournLost OnesHis Loss Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
