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We interpret the world through stories. . . everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

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Elizabeth McCracken

All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.

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In reference works, as in sin, omission is as bad as willful misbehavior.

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Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

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There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.

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My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

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Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

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