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Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

5.0

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the bigger pains of grief are less to do with its broader implications and more to do with the smaller parts of having known and loved; with the pieces of themselves that your loved ones leave you, so intrinsic to the make of your soul that you only realize they’re not entirely yours until those who writ them there are finally gone.

“I remembered my father coaching me before I took my GCE exam and how he said, as I stalled in solving a long equation, ‘Yes, you’re getting there. Don’t doubt yourself. Don’t stop.’ Is that why I believe now in always trying?”

5 stars ♡