“Death is a process as straightforward as mowing a lawn.”
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 188.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke is an Italian-Australian author and journalist based in Kent, England, known for her writing about sex, death and motherhood Gambotto-Burke has written one novel, The Pure Weight of the Heart, two anthologies, Lunch of Blood and An Instinct for the Kill, a memoir, The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide, and Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution.
“Death is a process as straightforward as mowing a lawn.”
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 188.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 25.
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 53.
“I think my parents were bewildered by my oddity.”
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 3.
“Psychological autopsies are also necessary to identify errors or oversights and expunge guilt.”
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 148.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 304.
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 93.
“From the standpoint of the present, the future is always a derangement of ambitions.”
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 55.
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 120.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 131.
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 22.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 332.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 114.
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 54.
“The conversion of mass to energy and light is the prerogative of every star.”
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 357.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 28.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 326.
Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 19.