Meghan O'Rourke Quotes - Page 3

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• A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

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  Mother, Sky, Wake Up

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

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• What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

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  One Day, Belief, Persons

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.87, Penguin

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• Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

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  Mother, Loss, Knowing

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

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• Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

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  Loss, Tiny, Enormous

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• I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

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  Mother, Brother, Fall

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• Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

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  Mother

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• Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

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  Holy, Disappear, Command

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.54, Penguin

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• This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

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  Grief, Pieces, Demand

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• My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

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  Self, Talent, Conscious

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• After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.

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  Profound, Dying, Difficult Experiences

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don't think it is HELPING people mourn.

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  Thinking, People, Cynical

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.

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  Loss, Thinking, Way

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

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  Struggle, Loss, Doe

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.

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  Mother, Believe, Hands

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.

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  Loss, Feelings, Might

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.

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  Grief, People, Different

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from the inside out - the show the strange intensities that come along with it, the peculiar thoughts, the longing for that past - all the strange moments of thinking you glimpse the dead person on the street, or in your dreams.

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  Dream, Grief, Writing

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe.

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  Grief, Thinking, Risk

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.

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  Grieving, Research, Way

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

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  Denial, Longing, Intense

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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