Mikki Brammer

The Collected Regrets of Clover

Natalie

That’s the thing about loneliness: no one ever chooses it.

Grief plays tricks on you that way—a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you’ve tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them suddenly unravel.

The most important thing is never to look away from someone’s pain . . . Giving someone the chance to be seen at their most vulnerable is much more healing than any words.

“The truth is, grief never really goes away. Someone told me once that it's like a bag that you always carry - it starts out as large as a suitcase, and as the years go by, it might reduce to the size of a purse, but you carry it forever.”

I can’t believe this is a debut novel 🥹 it’s just so good! There were so many lessons I learned, and some lines just hit me directly in the heart 🥹 This book proves that while grief may be defined with a simple sentence, each of us feels and copes with it differently.

“The truth is, grief never really goes away. Someone told me once that it's like a bag that you always carry - it starts out as large as a suitcase, and as the years go by, it might reduce to the size of a purse, but you carry it forever.”

I can’t believe this is a debut novel 🥹 it’s just so good! There were so many lessons I learned, and some lines just hit me directly in the heart 🥹 This book proves that while grief may be defined with a simple sentence, each of us feels and copes with it differently.

Jordan

britt

this book was absolutely beautiful. it felt like a warm hug. this month has been extraordinarily terrible because of the loss of my childhood dog and my grandpa. grief is so persistent and what i’ve learned from this book and my therapist is that grief never goes away. and that’s okay. because it never goes away. this book is giving me the courage to go on though. to live with the grief. 

my favorite quote were the ending words of this beautiful and amazing book: “And instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we’re here, maybe we should be savoring a simpler truth: We are here.”

I adored reading this book. It was lovely and sad and heart breaking and hopeful all wrapped up in one book. 

The Collected Regrets of Clover

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