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“The attempted comforts around death are sometimes the worst part of the experience—the heaviness of the conversations, the expectations of sadness, and the careful word choices.”

Book:Black Girls Must Die Exhausted

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“Quién sabe si se creyó un hombre feliz, pero sabía hacernos reír y al mismo tiempo nos contagió pasión por la melancolía. Un hombre así no debería morir temprano. Pero también la bondad tiene plazo. Lo enterramos mi madre, mis hermanos y yo. Pasaron los años y no pasó él. Pasó la vida y su memoria se encandiló en la nuestra.”

Memory Death Of A Loved One Fathers

Book:La emoción de las cosas

Source: La emoción de las cosas

“A un pedazo de su jardín se irán los trozos de arena cenicienta que se volvieron sus ojos claros, su voz, su memoria, su pasión desesperada por la vida y por los hijos de su esposo Carlos, los hijos que nos hemos reunido hoy en la tarde, a pensar bajo qué árbol los pondremos.”

Mothers Death Of A Loved One

Book:La emoción de las cosas

Source: La emoción de las cosas

“Miro las dos pequeñas cajas, pongo una mano en cada una. La de mi padre, se oye raro, me alegra. Ya no había nada suyo sino el recuerdo nuestro, y ahora están ahí esas pequeñas piedras grises diciendo que existió, que hubo tal cosa como un ser vivo detrás del mito enorme que entre todos tejimos tras su muerte.”

Death Of A Loved One Fathers

Book:La emoción de las cosas

Source: La emoción de las cosas

“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.”

Mothers Death Of A Loved One Fathers

Book:La emoción de las cosas

Source: La emoción de las cosas

“Jews in the Old Country called the cemetery the 'Village of the Still-Living'. I'd like to be remembered by loved ones so strongly in that way, as if I'm still here, wouldn't you? I would.”

Death Of A Loved One Jews

Book:The Museum Guard

Source: The Museum Guard

“It was a relief to love something already dead.”

Love Death Of A Loved One

Book:Bestiary

Source: Bestiary

“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.”

Grief Death Of A Loved One

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

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

“Things are sometimes faded but they will always become clear, where there seems nothing but bad look closer, you’re sure to find good.”

Life Lessons Literature Existence Destiny Self Help Inspirational Life Poetic Beliefs Inner Transformation Poetic Literature

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.”

Grieving Death Of A Loved One Grieving The Loss Of A Mother

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.”

Death Of A Loved One

Book:Sea of Tranquility

Source: Sea of Tranquility

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