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Quote by Meghan ORourke
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. Its like having an inner comb

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. Its like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes. – Meghan ORourke

Other quotes by Meghan ORourke

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I dont know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing. – Meghan ORourke

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Christmas
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But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone. – Meghan ORourke

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alone
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My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures. – Meghan ORourke

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Knowledge
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Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. – Charles Dudley Warner

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I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, theres a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it. – Gael Garcia Bernal

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You define a good flight by negatives: you didnt get hijacked, you didnt crash, you didnt throw up, you werent late, you werent nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. – Paul Theroux

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