“I Don’t Forgive People Because I’m Weak, I Forgive Them Because I Am Strong Enough To Know People

Telemark, Norway - by Roger Kristiansen

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the sh*t that weighs you down.”

— Toni Morrison

The Seven Year Itch (1955) dir. Billy Wilder

Good or not, grief is definitely another country. It makes no sense at all. You can smile through the funeral, crack a joke as you bury your loved one, and then, weeks later, catch sight of an Oreo cookie and start howling in public because you’ll never eat an Oreo with your father again. The Oreo cookie is more painful than the dead body. Marilyn French writes about this disconnect in The Women’s Room: “Rituals mark feelings, but feelings and events do not coincide. Feelings are large and spread over a lifetime.”

In Defense of Good Grief, Livemint  (via lastminutegenius)

Bliss

winter wonderland

“She’s sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.”

— Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her