THE DEBUT COLLECTION OF POETRY & ESSAYS
Nobody warned me
about the Quiet.
Grief does not end when the noise fades. It settles into ordinary days and changes the shape of memory. Vanessa De Veaux writes from inside that silence for anyone learning to live beside an absence that cannot be replaced.
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THE QUIET AFTER THE LOUD PART
This is not a book about healing.
◆It is about the quiet that comes before healing. If it ever comes.
WRITTEN FROM THE MIDDLE. FROM THE FLOOR OF IT.
A love story.
The saddest kind.
Nobody Warned Me About The Quiet is Vanessa De Veaux's unflinching debut collection, written after the loss of her father, mother, and younger sister.
Across poems, essays, letters, and unsent messages, she writes about the way loss rearranges a life: the full tables that hurt more than the empty one, the saved voicemail she cannot play or delete, and the mornings when simply putting both feet on the floor is an invisible act of courage.
This book does not turn grief into a lesson or rush toward a clean resolution. It tells the truth about love, silence, survival, and learning to live beside an absence that does not leave.
A PRIVATE PLACE FOR WHAT SURFACES
Meet yourself in
the Quiet Hour.
The Quiet Hour Journal is a digital journaling app, not another book to place on a shelf. It is a private space for the thoughts, memories, anger, and questions that surface while reading, or in the quiet hours when you need somewhere honest to land.
- Gentle prompts for grief, memory, identity, and becoming
- Open digital entries for the words with nowhere else to go
- A personal journal you can return to from your phone
The Quiet Hour Journal is available now.
Open the journalFROM THE TITLE POEM
“They told me grief would be loud. That it would come like a storm, announced and dramatic. Nobody warned me about the quiet. The specific silence of a house that used to hold four people and now holds one.”
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NOBODY WARNED ME ABOUT THE QUIET
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