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The Thirty Names of Night

Book by Zeyn Joukhadar · 3 quotes · Gender, Trans, Transmasc

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“You turn your head and smile at me. I smile back in the tired way the living have of appeasing the dead. How are you supposed to smile at a ghost without feeling lonely?”

Death Loss Grief Loneliness Ghosts

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“I smile back in the tired way the living have of appeasing the dead. How are you supposed to smile at a ghost without feeling lonely?”

Death Lonely Mourning

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“Before you died, I learned about death from Jiddo, whom I was never close with but whose death taught me that someday even our family will be gone. After that I held each of your hugs just a second longer, even when I would have rather been doing something else, because someday you'll be gone and I would wish I could go back to those moments. But now you are gone, and your absence hurts too much for me to think about those hugs, those games, those afternoons watering your plants. It's been five years, and time hasn't healed any wounds. You are all I think about some days, and yet I can't bear to remember the way things used to be.”

Death Loss Grief Family

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