Although I had spent almost a decade worrying about losing my father, I had never once thought about what would come next. Like a heart, my imagination had always stopped at the moment of death. (I. Lost)

Importance: Schulz glibly explains the incomprehensibility of death in this quote. She reflects on the irony of how pervasive a fear it is for the living, while also being something totally outside life, and thus unthinkable. In her own account of grieving for her father, this quote foreshadows the unevenness of the process, its thoroughly unexpected nature and the way in which she was forced to push her life forward in the face of loss.

It takes a long time to be done grieving, and even longer to know it. The periodicity of grief is too unreliable and the overall condition too chameleon to track with any certainty. Are you still mourning or just in a... (I. Lost)