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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‎

Notes on Grief

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  • Anaghahas quoted2 years ago
    grief belonged to other people. Does love bring, even if unconsciously, the delusional arrogance of expecting never to be touched by grief?
  • Beenzu Muzyambahas quoted2 years ago
    I finally understand why people get tattoos of those they have lost. The need to proclaim not merely the loss but the love, the continuity.
  • Beenzu Muzyambahas quoted2 years ago
    I must spare my loved ones my endless roiling thoughts
  • Beenzu Muzyambahas quoted2 years ago
    We don’t know how we will grieve until we grieve.
  • Beenzu Muzyambahas quoted2 years ago
    his appreciation for the properness of things. His meticulous record-keeping, the rows of files in his cabinet. Each child had files for primary, secondary and university records,
  • Beenzu Muzyambahas quoted2 years ago
    My father taught me that learning is never-ending.
  • Beenzu Muzyambahas quoted2 years ago
    He wrote his signature even on our birthday cards, which made my siblings and me laugh.
  • Beenzu Muzyambahas quoted2 years ago
    Grief is a cruel kind of education.
  • Táliahas quoted2 years ago
    Another revelation: how much laughter is a part of grief. Laughter is tightly braided into our family argot, and now we laugh remembering my father, but somewhere in the background there is a haze of disbelief. The laughter trails off. The laughter becomes tears and becomes sadness and becomes rage.
  • Táliahas quoted2 years ago
    Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.
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