“Oh my God,’ said Ellen, and Zhen thought: Yes, this is how it begins. This is how you know you’re grieving. When the whole thing strikes you as absolutely outrageous, when you’re angry with your own mother for fucking letting cancer take her and leaving you, that’s when you know you’re in it.”
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“Your name, your efforts, your duas are known in the heavens. You matter more than you realize.”
“Murder was one moment. Grieving was forever.”