“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”
“She stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”
“she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.”
“Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”
“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.”
“...tried to be faultless as a parent, but still she worries that in the end, all her love for her daughter will not compensate for the loss she suffered as a baby”