Mikki Brammer

The Collected Regrets of Clover

Helen 

Looking up at my notebooks, I thought about the advice a soft- spoken gardener named Arthur had given me right before he died. "If you want something you don't have," he'd said, "you have to do something you've never done."

Maybe the biggest risk in life was taking no risks at all. 

tals

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.

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.

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

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