Meghan O'Rourke

Long Goodbye: A Memoir of Grief (2012)

Quotable:Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.The idea that the dead might not be utterly gone has an irresistible magnetism… This was the mourner’s secret position, it seemed to me: I have to say this person is dead, but I don’t have to believe ...