She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.
Interpretation
Losing a sibling is an unnatural experience that deeply affects one's perception of life and mortality.
This quote reflects the profound emotional impact of losing a sibling, emphasizing the unnaturalness of such a loss in the natural order of life. It conveys the idea that this kind of grief feels like an unsettling disruption in the timeline of one's life, akin to reliving one's own passing, highlighting the deep connection between siblings and the void left by their absence.
In practice
During a memorial service, one might use this quote to express the pain and unnaturalness of losing a brother or sister.
Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. And, more important, how does he treat you?
God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.
I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.
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