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“...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs, flooding across the rough wooden floor, down the narrow wooden stairs and out into the old soil of the garden. No roses, no, she does not even ask to make roses, just dissolution; most any night she asks just for that.”

Loss Grief Sadness Grieving Emptiness Lost Love Oblivion Emotional Pain

Book:Widow: Stories

Source: Widow: Stories

“Wandering is better than place sometimes, than home, than destination. Sometimes she can eke out the idea that wandering is possibility, chance, serendipity--he might be there, that place she didn't think to look, hadn't worked hard enough to find....”

Love Loss Grief Grieving Mourning Lost Love

Book:Widow: Stories

Source: Widow: Stories

“For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body, their touch, their heat, their oceanic heart...she doesn't want another body, she wants the body she loved, the forceps scar across his cheek that she traced with her hand, his penis, its elegant sweep to the side, the preternaturally soft skin. One wants what one has loved, not the idea of love.”

Loss Grief Sadness Loneliness Longing Mourning Lost Love

Book:Widow: Stories

Source: Widow: Stories

“She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.”

Pain Loss Grief Sadness Lost Love

Book:Widow: Stories

Source: Widow: Stories