“What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.” ThinkingWaySportsComplicatedVulnerabilityGymnastics Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.” ThinkingMindEyePastMotherGoneSpringCrossesEdgesLovelyFleetingLuminousCardinals Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.” ThinkingTryingRememberMotherFoundSickJournal Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe.” ThinkingTryingKindHelpingSeemsRememberCertainCoursesIndividualGriefRiskNormalResearchDifficultyAbnormalReckoning Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“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
“Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.” ThinkingWayShouldCertainLossHarderPatientEtcBe Patient Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.” PeopleThinkingHelpingSeemsIndustryFuneralCynicalHelping PeopleMourn Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.” ThinkingIdeasBodyFateModernDyingIllusion Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.” ThinkingWorldWellsRealitySpiritualProcessGriefProfoundAbsenceMetaphysicalPillarsReckoningProfound SpiritualReality Of Death Author:Meghan O'Rourke
