Life & Mortality Quote by Victoria de los Angeles

"Of course" does a lot of stage-managing here. It’s the verbal equivalent of a singer taking a preparatory breath in public: a small phrase that pre-empts the audience’s expectations while admitting she’s aware of them. Victoria de los Angeles, whose art depended on controlled exposure - intimacy without collapse - reaches for a polite inevitability before she reaches for the pain. The line acknowledges the social script around grief (you are supposed to be devastated) and then slips into the vaguer, safer territory of "trauma... generally", as if specificity might invite questions she can’t, or won’t, answer.

That hedging is the subtext: not denial, but containment. Classical musicians are trained to translate emotion into form; they live in a culture where private life is often treated as either irrelevant or scandalously relevant. So grief becomes something like an atmospheric condition, something that affects her "generally" rather than a wound with edges. It’s a way to keep authority over her own narrative and preserve dignity in the face of curiosity.

The name "Geoffrey" lands with a quiet thud - personal, unadorned, unexplained. She doesn’t tell you who he is because she’s not granting access; she’s setting a boundary while still offering enough to be human. The intent feels less like confession than calibration: acknowledging trauma, refusing spectacle, and protecting the self that has to keep singing.