“Grief is the emotional contract of divorce”
“Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent.”
“Grief is a peculiar emotion.”
“I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.”
“Ira felt as if he'd contracted an all-over emotional itch, as if he'd put on a sweater made of spiritually abrasive wool- but to take it off would leave him dreadfully cold.”
“There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-she had reached that point.”