1. 16 November 2009
    “It’s funny how people use that phrase, life and death, as if life is the opposite of death. Birth is the opposite of death. Life…has no opposite.”
    James Van Der Beek, Dawson’s Creek

    tv life opposites death

  2. 24 August 2009
    “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

    book death grief

  3. 21 April 2009
    “Well, I’m gonna get out of bed every morning… breath in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won’t have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breath in and out… and, then after a while, I won’t have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.”
    Tom Hanks, Sleepless in Seattle

    movie moving on death

  4. 17 April 2009
    “We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory… It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going into mourning. It is not a question of going around with a long face. It is just a question of having a pause between the old and the new. No haste to find a substitute for the one who has given you love for years. Wait…”
    Derek Tangye, The Winding Lane

    book memory death

  5. 04 February 2009
    “I wear my father’s khaki work jacket inside-out and my mother tells people that it’s my way of staying close to him, but that’s not true. I only do it so people will look at me, because after he died, they quit looking and would only stare at the space around me and sometimes their gaze would come millimeters from my face or hair, but would stop just short of me. Now they stare at my inside-out jacket and I pretend they are looking at me. I sew the jacket so it is more form fitting and their eyes will be closer to my body. I cut the bottom and sleeves off so it looks like a funny kind of vest, cut the zipper away, and rip the buttons off. Every week I remove more and more of the jacket until it is just a strip of material that I tie around my neck in a loose semi-knot and when everyone quits looking at me, I will tie the strip tighter and tighter, urging them to look at me; oh, god, please look at me.”
    Brandi Wells  (via hello vagina )

    death holding on grief

  6. 27 June 2008
    “Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world feels depopulated.”
    Lamartime

    loss grief death