The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) (edit title/settings)

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Shelfari edited the memorable quotes of The Year of Magical Thinking Monday, October 11, 2010.

• Edited a quotation: “Why do you always have to be right?Whyright?Why do you always have to have the last word?Forword?For once in your life just let it go.”

Leslie T edited the memorable quotes of The Year of Magical Thinking Tuesday, October 5, 2010.

• Edited a quotation: “Why do you always have to be right?Whyright?Why do you always have to have the last word?Forword?For once in your life just let it go.”
• Added a quotation: ““As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs, a technique for withholding whatever it was I thought or believed behind an increasingly impenetrable polish.””Joan
• Added a quotation: ““Fires said we were home. we had drawn the curtain, we were safe through the night.””Joan

Jennifer O. edited the memorable quotes of The Year of Magical Thinking Saturday, August 1, 2009.

• Added a quotation: “We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or worse, ourselves.”
• Added a quotation: “We are not idealized wild things.”
• Added a quotation: “The craziness is receding but no clarity is taking place. I look for resolution and find none.”
• Added a quotation: “I also know that if we are to live ourselves, there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let them go in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of him in the water.”

Jennifer O. edited the memorable quotes of The Year of Magical Thinking Saturday, August 1, 2009.

• Added a quotation: “People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness.”
• Added a quotation: “Why do you always have to be right?Why do you always have to have the last word?For once in your life just let it go.”
• Added a quotation: “Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.”
• Added a quotation: “Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.”
• Added a quotation: “People in grief think a great deal about self-pity. We worry it, dread it, scourge our thinking for signs of it. We fear that our actions will reveal the condition tellingly described as "dwelling on it."”

Jennifer O. edited the memorable quotes of The Year of Magical Thinking Saturday, August 1, 2009.

• Added a quotation: “Confronted with certain disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which the plane fell, the routine errand that ended on the shoulder with the car in flames, the swings where the children were playing as usual when the rattlesnake struck from the ivy.”

Peiyu W edited the memorable quotes of The Year of Magical Thinking Monday, July 20, 2009.

• Added a quotation: “I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us”