“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”

“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.”

" Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits".