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Gail Caldwell
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“... the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.”
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“... memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.”
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“Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear ...”
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“... the mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her.”
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“The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course.”
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“I thought grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that gradually receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts.”
Gail Caldwell, U.S. book critic, Pulitzer Prize winner
(1951)