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In her third poetry collection, Ari Eastman takes us through a very personal journey of growing up, loss, love, and surviving it all. This book is a must read for anyone who has experienced tremendous grief. Eastman has put together a book that not only e

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“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn’t enough for me. Can you understand that?”

— Sidney Sheldon, amazon.com

Tagged: Ambition, Learning, Life, Power

“We rewrite what we wanted out of life and decide it's really boys who smell like cigarettes.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Good wriitng, Women, My aesthetic

“She has a heart that could exist on magazine covers.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Good wriitng, Women, My aesthetic

“I tell him about the boys and cobwebs and how I’m not sure when I’m the spider or the one getting caught.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Dating

“Your name is still stitched somewhere on the back of my throat.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry

“You know I am a past of breaking and still call it beautiful.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Love, Relationships

“Someone once told me it’s a bad thing to start suddenly speaking in tongues, but he knows that language better than anyone. I don’t understand a word, but thank God he does. Love is like the first cherry tree blossoming. Love is like the two of us taking turns biting the apple tree. Love is like our…”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Love

“Sadness does not have a home in me when he’s around.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Love

“I see a nutcracker in a store window display and want to throw the biggest rock at it I can find. I want to shatter the glass with my bare knuckles, to bleed all over the happiness. I want to stuff tinsel in the mouth of the nutcracker, to watch him destroy everything that is supposed to bring cheer…”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Loss, Grief

“there are too many rooms here, too many places for my grief to sit”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Grief, Loss

“to watch you in pain is a terrible, terrible thing. is to sit helpless with all the tools locked in the shed.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Health, Pain, Family

“But it takes years to finally see what they mean is sisterhood is not competition. Sisterhood is how women learn to survive when a whole world wants them to be just one thing.”

— Ari Eastman, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, sisterhood, Friendship