Noelle

“[Mourning] requires acknowledging how much was lost, how deeply it matters, how unstable the world has become in the aftermath, and how difficult it feels to be ever moving forward. It requires full-bodied grieving for what you’ve lost. Grief is hard, actually the hardest of all emotions and perhaps most intolerable because its demands are so excruciating. It requires a willingness to bear the unbearable.”

“When I find myself wanting to cry for no reason I can fathom I know that it is loss clawing its way out from where I thought I had buried it If ever something had nine lives this is it”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn.”

thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)