"Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief"

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Source : Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alison Bechdel

#Grief Quotes #Absence Quotes #Form Quotes

“Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.”
“Buhari is a child crawling at 72, he has nothing to offer”
“True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.”
“The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.”
“We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.”
“Saying, have a great work-out is like saying, I hope you pull something.”
“Puppies are constantly inventing new ways to be bad. It's fascinating. You come into a room they've been in and see pieces of debris and try to figure out what you had that was made from wicker or what had been stuffed with fluff.”
“I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.”

Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.240, Penguin

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