(b. 1951– )
U.S. book critic and memoirist“Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.”
more infosource: Let’s Take the Long Way Home (New York: Random House, 2010), 180.
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category: death, grief, mourning, sadness
medium: memoir
“I had a friend who years before had lost her firstborn when he was an infant, and she told me one of the piercing consolations she received in her early grief was from a man who recognized the fierce loyalty one feels to the dead. ‘The real hell of this,’ he told her, ‘is that you’re going to get through it.’ Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.”
more infosource: Let’s Take the Long Way Home (New York: Random House, 2010), 163.
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category: consolation, death, friendship, grief, mourning, survival
medium: memoir
“It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.”
more infosource: Let’s Take the Long Way Home (New York: Random House, 2010), 3.
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category: death, friendship, love, share, story
medium: memoir
Gail Caldwell