"Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning."

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Source : Carrie Jones (2010). “Captivate”, p.40, A&C Black

Carrie Jones

#Loss Quotes #People Quotes #Mourning Quotes

“They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.”
“A hero does for others. He would do anything for people he loves, because he knows it would make their lives better. I am not that kind of person, but I want you to be. You could give something to her, to me, to those children in the quarter. You could give something I never could ... The white people out there are saying you don't have it-that you're a hog, not a man. But I know they are wrong.”
“As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning.”
“Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.”
“The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.”

Source : "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.
“Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.”
“The chimps love holidays - in fact Tatu actually anticipates them and asks about them.”
“Gotta get rid of these free radicals, but first I need to figure out what they are.”

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