“The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.” WorldNeedsMotherTruth Is Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.” WorldWayWritingPrimariesMake Sense Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.” WorldYearsFirstsHomeMotherFeltHalfOne WordAnchors 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
“A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.” WorldMotherSkyWake UpDividesWakingShellsEntryUnimaginable Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.” WorldEnergyDifficultLosesLossRelationshipIdentityLetting GoPsychiatristDeceased Author:Meghan O'Rourke
