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“No me mires. Quédate con la yo que anduvo viva, que el muerto sea tu padre, que ya él estaba muerto. En esta caja no estoy, llévatela al jardín, tírala, despilfarra. No están aquí mis ojos ni mis manos ni mi terco deseo de estar aquí.”

Book:La emoción de las cosas

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La emoción de las cosas

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“It was a refuge by the sea, yet she had no interest in the moving tide or the solace it tendered. The haunting wail of her own cry was unfamiliar to her ear, rising from uncharted depths within her. Her heart felt broken and it could not be mended. Her legs felt weak and they could not be strengthened. She lay under the bedcovers and wept, and turned her cheek to rest on the pillow.”

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Source: Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale

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Book:Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

Source: Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

“Right after her funeral I felt the way you feel when it suddenly starts raining hard, and you look around and find no place to take shelter.”

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Book:The Story of the Lost Child

Source: The Story of the Lost Child

“Your parents bring you into this world, and then they move on without you and leave you behind. I know that that's the natural order of things, Z., and yet the pain of that whole arrangement is incredible, isn't it? We're all staggering around brokenhearted. By "arrangement" I mean "mortality", I guess. The grief fades with time but we stay abandoned.”

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Book:Sea of Tranquility

Source: Sea of Tranquility

“Sometimes, well into middle age, I composed letters to my father. In my dreams, I would meet him on a busy street, after many lost years, and he would receive me with the same old warmth. We would get into a little train together, or sit in a dark hall, watching a screen lit up with bright, moving images. 'Where were you all these years?' I would ask him, and he would ruffle my hair. My father hadn't died; he was a traveller in a different dimension, and he would turn up every now and then, just to see if I was all right.”

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Book:Lone Fox Dancing

Source: Lone Fox Dancing

“Have you news of my boy Jack? ” Not this tide. “When d’you think that he’ll come back?” Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. “Has any one else had word of him?” Not this tide. For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. “Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?” None this tide, Nor any tide, Except he did not shame his kind— Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide. Then hold your head up all the more, This tide, And every tide; Because he was the son you bore, And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!”

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Book:Sea Warfare

Source: Sea Warfare

“We are all unique, in life and in death. We are born, we live, we die, and we grieve, but my grief is not like yours.”

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Book:My Grief Is Not Like Yours: Learning to Live after Unimaginable Loss—A Daughter's Journey

Source: My Grief Is Not Like Yours: Learning to Live after Unimaginable Loss—A Daughter's Journey

“Despite my vocabulary, my books, knowledge, I find myself folded against the far wall, bereft. I watch two daughters care for their own with an inertia equal to gravity. I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can't, at least, teach me how to touch my dead.”

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Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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