Top 41 Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.