Quotes by : Meghan O'Rourke

Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you....

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I....

What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she....

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

the loss is transformative, in good ways and bad, a tangle of change that cannot be threaded into the....

Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate....

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person....

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure....