“Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.”
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Author of *Learning about dogs*.
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“Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.”
“And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and ou...”
“I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to m...”
“You can't just make me different and then leave”
“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too.”
“When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.”
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“What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that...”
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“She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die”
“The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.”
“Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.”
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“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
“We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.”
“I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to kee...”
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“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancin...”
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“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive”
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine them...”
“I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.”
“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also...”
“There is no try. There is only do.”