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“my soul has shadows – nooks and crannies where griefs, like cobwebs, collect”
“Grief keeps coming back with the same things in its hands — you know this. You know that the hands of grief are memory. Again and again, grief holds the same few things.”
“Last night he kept the vigil alone. He lay awake, wishing Liz back; waiting for her to come and lie beside him. It's true he is at Esher with the cardinal, not at home at the Austin Friars. But, he...”
“She looked around for a place to be. A small place. The closet? ... It was both small and bright, and she wanted to be in a very small, very bright place. Small enough to contain her grief.Bright e...”
“I stood there, staring at my clothes. What does a mama wear to her son’s funeral? I looked over my wardrobe.There were outfits purchased for work, church, and casual weekends but nothing to wear to...”
“In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn’t take much notice of anything… oth...”
“To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside...”
“I look at people who aren’t us and I hate them.”
“I managed to ask a question that had been burning inside me. “Do you still love her? Rose?” Along with not knowing what it felt like to be in love, I also didn’t know how long it took to recover fr...”
“On April 18, 1906, when that earthquake hit San Francisco and took David from her, Vivien began to speak the language of grief. She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow...”
“Although it was autumn and not summer the dark-gold sunlight and the inky shadows, long and slender in the shape of felled cypresses, were the same, and there was the same sense of everything drenc...”
“I draw in a ragged breath, the kind you take when the pain is too deep to cry, when you can't cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist. I want to do ...”
“He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.”
“He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.”
“That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.”
“There is a club in this world that you do not join knowingly.One day you are just a member.It is “The life changing events club.”The fee to join the club is hurt beyond belief, payable in full, up ...”
“...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...”
“...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...”
“...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...”
“May the beauty of the flowers remind us of the beauty of our loved one's spirit”
