
“We are afraid of our anger, embarrassed by the way it transforms us. We cry to quell what we feel, even when it's trying to tell us something, even when it has every right to exist.”
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“It didn't occur to me that what I wanted from S was the same thing that my mother craved from me: to have someone live in her pain with her.”
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“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.”
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