Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

• I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Spring, Eye

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• I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Sadness, Flu

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

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  Dog, Memories, Grief

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• One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

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  Mother, Home, Years

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• One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Perspective, Sorrow

  "Pregunte a la autora en directo: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Chat en directo, www.newyorker.com. 2 de marzo de 2011.

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• All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

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  Falling In Love, Stories, Love Story

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• Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.

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  Desire, One Day, Stories

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• A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, World, Portal

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

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• Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

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  Writing, World, Way

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• Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Querer, A Veces, Lo Que Quieras

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• A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

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  Mother, Stories

  "Story's end" by Meghan O'Rourke, www.newyorker.com. March 07, 2011.

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• El duelo se caracteriza mucho más por oleadas de sentimientos que disminuyen y vuelven a aparecer, se parece menos a etapas y más a diferentes estados de sentimientos.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Duelo, Sentimientos, Diferentes

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• Una muerte por una larga enfermedad es muy diferente a una muerte repentina. Te da tiempo a despedirte y a adaptarte a la idea de que el ser querido ya no estará contigo.

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  Goodbye, Ideas, Giving

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.93, Penguin

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• There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got to be with that person. And the seeming loss of the past, which now feels forever out of reach.

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  Loss, Past, Self

  "Pregunte a la autora en directo: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Chat en directo, www.newyorker.com. 2 de marzo de 2011.

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• If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

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  Grief, Transactions, Universal

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.41, Penguin

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• We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.

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  Fate, Thinking, Ideas

  "Pregunte a la autora en directo: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Chat en directo, www.newyorker.com. 2 de marzo de 2011.

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• Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Stress, Funeral, Cost

  Fuente: www.newyorker.com

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• The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

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  Mother, Needs, World

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• I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.

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  Spiritual, Grief, Reality

  "Pregunte a la autora en directo: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Chat en directo, www.newyorker.com. 2 de marzo de 2011.

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• I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

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  Religioso, Niños, Dos

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.82, Penguin

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• It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Pain, Sibling, Grief

  "Pregunte a la autora en directo: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Chat en directo, www.newyorker.com. 2 de marzo de 2011.

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• Una de las sucias verdades sobre una pérdida es que no sólo lloras a la persona muerta, sino también a la persona que llegaste a ser cuando la persona perdida estaba viva. Esta pérdida puede ser incluso lo que más te afecte.

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  Loss, Lost Ones, Alive

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

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  Gymnastics, Grace, Athleticism

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• Envidio a mis amigos judíos el ritual de rezar el kaddish, un ritual que parece perfectamente concebido, con su grupo de apoyo incorporado y su ceremoniosa designación de un tiempo cada día dedicado a recordar a la persona perdida.

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  Envy, Support, Each Day

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• When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Thinking, Sick

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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