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Meghan O'Rourke

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Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

Total quotes: 2

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Meghan O'Rourke

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Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Educated At: Yale University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Poet

Total quotes: 2

“When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”

— Meghan O'Rourke, The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Tagged: Loss, Death, Identity

“I would always look for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, look: she existed.”

— Meghan O'Rourke, Once: Poems

Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Loss, Clues, Poems, Words, Existence

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