“Heaven left a hole in your heart. But its up to you to choose if that hole will be filled with pain, anger, and the eternal darkness of loss . . . Or if you will choose to fill it with light and lo...”

“Hershey Pennsylvania was self-proclaimed as the Sweetest Place On Earth, but less advertised than chocolate, it was also home to one of the states largest Childrens Hospitals. The streets lined wit...”

“Youve got to trust yourself. Be gentle with yourself. And listen to yourself. Youre the only person who can get you through this now. Youre the only one who can survive your story, the only one who...”

“Theres something about the amount of time that has gone by that makes her feel like a survivor. Theres something in the way that following her heart, despite it being perpetually broken, has made h...”

“She thought about how in that moment life was perfect because it was simple. One truck, a world asleep, and a million stars.It didnt matter where they were going. She was just existing.”

“But in all of the sadness, when youre feeling that your heart is empty, and lacking, Youve got to remember that grief isnt the absence of love. Grief is the proof that love is still there.”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.”

“It's better to move on now and feel a pinch, than hold on and later treat a wound”

“For those who challenge the great dangers fearlessly, let us remind this realistic probability: Fear can save your life and courage may kill you; thus sometimes fear is a reasonable path to continu...”

“Your grief is something to be admired the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.”

“For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...It is a word...the word hangs o...”

“If we cant feel into the heart of grief, we cant truly move on to experience hope and joy. We cant be present to what is now, and what is next, because we are bound by the loss and sorrow that hold...”