Clergyman's

“Death It does not happen to the dead aloneThose left behind, die tooIn parts that would never heal and come back to life(Page 14)”
— Neena Verma

“I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death. (Page 94)”
— Neena Verma

“We are generally not programmed to imagine death, to handle death, to absorb grief, at least not in the immediacy of things, definitely not when the ‘thing’ has happened to another person.”
— Neena Verma

“The crumbling under the ‘cold corpse’The deadness of ‘mortal separation’The moaning wails of ‘mourning’The push to ‘perform rituals’The spectacle of ‘sorrow’The goriness of ‘grief’AndThe ‘mercilessness’ of the ‘merciful’Who knows … ‘what’ and ‘why’ Who would ever want to know(Page 34)”
— Neena Verma