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“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

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This memoir delves into the author's personal journey through the year following the unexpected death of her husband. It is a raw and honest portrayal of the complexities of grief, the strange and often irrational thoughts that can arise during such a time, and the struggle to find a path forward amidst overwhelming loss. more

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Joan Didion

Joan Didion is an American author born on December 5, 1934. Known for her distinctive narrative style and profound insights into modern life, her works have gained recognition for their unique perspective and deep understanding of the complexities of contemporary society. more

“Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.”

“Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.”

Dream Unconscious Royal Conscious And Unconscious Paraphrased Interpretation Of Dreams Neurologists Paraphrasing Summarizing

Author:Sigmund Freud

“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”

Humans Long Stills Whole Exile Eden

Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both." Ruthless Trust, pg 22”

“Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.”

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

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