“I feel her presence in the common day,
In that slow dark that widens every eye.
She moves as water moves, and comes to me,
Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be.”
“Please remind them that none of us have all the time we think we have in this troubled but still beautiful world.”
Source: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
“Often, in death, everything else fails. We are left only with the music and the meaning of poetry.”
Source: The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
“On these forgotten islands they rest, and the sand packs tight around them while their friends have gone on to other islands, to die on other beaches. The little invasions, the crumbs of global warfare, eventually to be remembered only by mapmakers and mothers.”
Source: The Pale Blonde of Sands Street
“Grief did not quieten the world's demands, and I was thankful to be kept busy.”
Source: The Witchfinder's Sister
“Lorsque votre travail de deuil progresse, une énergie intérieure, souvent à peine perceptible, s'active pour réparer tout votre être. Ce travail obscur s'effectue même durant les périodes où vous avez l'impression que rien ne bouge.
Cependant, on peut dire que vous êtes sur la bonne voie lorsque vous prenez conscience que vous pleurez sur « vous » et non sur la personne qui n'est plus.”
Source: De l'autre côté des larmes : Guide pour une traversée consciente du deuil
“There is an intense desire to do the proper thing. This feels like their induction. Suddenly, here is life, cut right to its center. Here it is, dismantled to its bones.”
Source: The Dreamers
“I think the dead are tender. Shall we kiss?--”
“Each death frames previous deaths in a different light, and even deaths to come. During the time my mother was sick, I found myself crying uncontrollably over the deaths of people I barely knew.”
Source: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
“What is clear is that meaning may not be something we find. We found no meaning in our son's death, or in the deaths of countless others. The most we could hope was that we might be able to create meaning.”
Source: Why Religion? A Personal Story