Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.