115 Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

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

A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

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

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

Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by a whole host of other feelings.