Obit
Victoria Chang
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is grief.”
“Blame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.”
“I now know that to be loved as child means to be watched. In high school, I loved when the teacher turned the lights off. A moment to feel loved and unseen at once. I understand now. We can't be loved when the lights are off.”
“To love anyone means to admit extinction. I tell myself this, so I never fall in love, so that the fire lights just me.”
“The way memory is the ringing after a gunshot. The way we try to remember the gunshot but can’t. The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.”
“I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn’t know that it’s not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.”
“Blame is just an echo of pain, a veil across the face of the one you blame. I blame God. I want to complain to the boss of God about God. What if the boss of God is rain and the only way to speak to rain is to open your mouth to the sky and drown?”
“Before my mother's death, I sat anywhere. Now I look for the image of the empty chair near the image of the empty table. An image of me sits down. Depression is a glove over the heart. Depression is an image of a glove over the image of a heart.”
“Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.”
“I know the heart doesn’t really shatter, but I also can no longer feel it.”
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