{"quotes":[{"text":"People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.","author":"Lee Smith","tags":["death-and-sickness","funerals","mourning","on-agate-hill","tragedy"],"id":10553,"author_id":"Lee+Smith"},{"text":"Death is a misery.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-and-love","death-and-sickness"],"id":23083,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The dead only knows their world.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["death-and-dying","death-and-sickness","death-of-a-child","death-of-a-loved-one","death-wish","dying-well","dying-words","dying-young","grave","grave-peril","gravestone","graveyard-book","graveyards","life-and-death","life-and-death-life","life-lesson","life-philosophy","life","note-to-self","wisdom","wise","wise-words"],"id":24336,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","advice","and-death-life","conscience","death-and-sickness","death-note","death-wish","dying","end-of-the-world","endings","endings-and-beginnings","endurance-and-attitude","life","life-and-death","life-and-living","life-lessons","life","sickness-and-diseases","wisdom","wise","wise-words","wishes-dreams"],"id":33184,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-and-sickness","death-note","death-of-a-loved-one","departed-souls","life-and-death","life-and-death-life","living-life","souls-soul","spiritual-life","spiritual"],"id":57898,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins pony tail fasteners, stashes of powders, colonies of tiny lipsticks (p.39).","author":"Barbara Blatner","tags":["cancer","colon-cancer","death","death-and-dying","death-and-sickness","death-at-home","death-of-a-loved-one","memoir","mother","mother-and-child","mother-and-daughter","mother-and-son","poetry","poetry","verse"],"id":68047,"author_id":"Barbara+Blatner"},{"text":"Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","christian-living","death-and-dying","death-and-sickness","death-note","death-wish","deathbed","fairies","faith","harmony","human-nature","humanity-advice","humanity-and-society","life","life-and-death","life-and-living","life","peace","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":73345,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all. It is automatic, unflinching, a mix of man and machine, consuming and unquestionable obligation meeting illness move for move in a giant even-steven game of chess – an unending round of something that looks like shadowboxing, though between love and death, which is the shadow? “Everyone admires us for our courage,” says one man. “They have no idea what they’re talking about.”“Courage requires options,” the man adds.“There are options,” says a woman with a thick suede headband. “You could give up. You could fall apart.”“No you can’t. Nobody does. I’ve never seen it,” says the man. “Well, not really fall apart.","author":"Lorrie Moore","tags":["bravery","courage","death","death-and-love","death-and-sickness","death-of-a-loved-one","illness","love"],"id":77379,"author_id":"Lorrie+Moore"},{"text":"Blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. And on and through everything everywhere the sun shines without reservation (p. 97).","author":"Barbara Blatner","tags":["alchoholism","barbara-blatner","cancer","colon-cancer","conflict","daughters","death","death-and-dying","death-and-love","death-and-sickness","death-and-son","death-of-a-loved-one","dying","grief","grievindeath-and-daughters","grieving-the-loss-of-a-mother","hate","healing","love","memoirs","mother","new-york-quarterly","poem","poems","poetry","son","verse","verses"],"id":99558,"author_id":"Barbara+Blatner"},{"text":"Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.","author":"Jonathan Harnisch","tags":["breaking-up","breakup","breakup","breakup","breakups","death","death-and-dying","death-and-sickness","death-of-a-loved-one","friendship-lost","goodbye","goodbyes","life","life-and-living","life-philosophy","life","loss-of-a-child","loss-of-a-loved-one","loss-of-family","loss-of-hope","lost-love","pain","painful-memories","sudden-death"],"id":120870,"author_id":"Jonathan+Harnisch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}