Linda Olsson - I lay down on the bed clasping the pictures and buried my face in the pillo

I lay down on the bed clasping the pictures and buried my face in the pillow in a vain attempt at silencing my sobs. But it was as if all my life's accumulated grief had finally found an outlet and was allowed to take its course. I screamed, I cried, until the grief became bearable. (174)

- Linda Olsson

source: Linda Olsson (2009). “Sonata for Miriam: A Novel”, p.114, Penguin

topic: Grief, Bed, Faces, Silencing