Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear. Colum McCann
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After the death of her mother, Gloria struggled with the idea that everything was all that much better now that she wasn’t around anymore. However, her father convinced her that the only thing worth grieving over was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.

Source: Let The Great World Spin

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