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“Sometimes to live again, we have to let ourselves die completely. We have to let ourselves become completely, utterly new. When grief rings, surrender. There is nothing else to do. The delivery is utter transformation.”

Book:Untamed

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Untamed

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“Lyssa thought she would talk to her mother about it, and then she remembered. She had to keep remembering, even after she'd seen the body and signed the paperwork and arranged a funeral. Somehow she'd expected the dying to be the worst part, that after it was over she could go home and tell some healthy living version of her mother about the terrible thing that had just happened to her.”

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Book:The Office of Historical Corrections

Source: The Office of Historical Corrections

“He said being dead was a little like living, only longer.”

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Book:Book of Hours: Poems

Source: Book of Hours: Poems

“Do you know,’ she said slowly, ‘that the stars that we see the clearest are already dead?... it’s not depressing, it’s beautiful. They’ve been done for who knows how long, but we can still see them. They live on.”

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Book:The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

Source: The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

“It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I am no longer ashamed how for weeks, after, I wanted to be dead--not to die, mind you, or do myself in--but to be there already, walking amongst all those I'd lost, to join the throng singing, if that's what there is-- or the nothing, the gnawing-- So be it.”

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Book:Book of Hours: Poems

Source: Book of Hours: Poems

“Some things feel worse than dying, like losing someone you love.”

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Book:Kala Runtuh Seluruhnya

Source: Kala Runtuh Seluruhnya

“It's amazing how gung ho he is about saving the lives of fetuses, but then he turns a blind eye to all the actual humans DYING right in front of him.”

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Book:Like a Love Story

Source: Like a Love Story

“It was just as well dying was not easy. If it were, women and men would choose it oh so often, in each blinding rush of fresh pain. Instead we soldier through, thralls to that irrational master who bids us 'live,' clinging to the hope of waking to a brighter dawn. [Lydia Gisborne Robinson]”

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Book:Brontë’s Mistress

Source: Brontë’s Mistress

“Henry's funeral lasted a little more than an hour. All the slaves he owned surrounded his family and friends and the hole where they put him. Because Valtims Moffett was late, they started without him. Not knowing when Moffett would arrive, Caldonia decided that there, at the end, God would not hold it against Henry Townsend for not having a proper conductor on his last train.”

Death Dying Funerals

Book:The Known World

Source: The Known World

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