“Maybe she was just matter, and matter gets recycled. But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts.”Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her a lot like that, as something's meal. What was her—green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs—would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about the slow process…”Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't much matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.”Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“We are driving through the place that she could not drive through, passing onto asphalt she never saw, and we are not dead. We are not dead! We are breathing and we are crying and now slowing down and moving back into the right lane.”Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.”Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.”Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.”Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”Tagged: Falling Apart, Mental Illness, Pain, hurt, Losing Yourself