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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‎

Notes on Grief

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  • juanmanuelliefez uma citaçãohá 4 dias
    Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger.
  • anafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    grief belonged to other people. Does love bring, even if unconsciously, the delusional arrogance of expecting never to be touched by grief?
  • Beenzu Muzyambafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    I finally understand why people get tattoos of those they have lost. The need to proclaim not merely the loss but the love, the continuity.
  • Beenzu Muzyambafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    I must spare my loved ones my endless roiling thoughts
  • Beenzu Muzyambafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    We don’t know how we will grieve until we grieve.
  • Beenzu Muzyambafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    his appreciation for the properness of things. His meticulous record-keeping, the rows of files in his cabinet. Each child had files for primary, secondary and university records,
  • Beenzu Muzyambafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    My father taught me that learning is never-ending.
  • Beenzu Muzyambafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    He wrote his signature even on our birthday cards, which made my siblings and me laugh.
  • Beenzu Muzyambafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    Grief is a cruel kind of education.
  • Táliafez uma citaçãohá 3 anos
    Another revelation: how much laughter is a part of grief. Laughter is tightly braided into our family argot, and now we laugh remembering my father, but somewhere in the background there is a haze of disbelief. The laughter trails off. The laughter becomes tears and becomes sadness and becomes rage.
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