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“Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels....”
“They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna”
“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved”
“If suddenly you do not exist,if suddenly you no longer live,I shall live on.I do not dare,I do not dare to write it,if you die.I shall live on.For where a man has no voice,there, my voice.Where bla...”
“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life”
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
“I see we have a problem. Lucas gripped her other arm and gave her a non-too-gentle shake. Are you in a relationship? or... Those dark eyes searching hers narrowed into slits. Are you married?”
“She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.”
“Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone.”
“What the dead had no speech for, when living,They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.”
“To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering”
“It is not enough to write and deliver a funeral service for a grieving familyyou must love them too.”
“An upturned life is righted in the box.”
“Love is love," I told her, as I tell all of my patients who are ashamed to find themselves shattered by the death of a dog. "Loss is loss.”
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
“There is an old phrase, ‘hiding in plain sight.’ This is where we find the loved one we miss so much. All we need to do is open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts.”
“She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully....”
“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
“Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.”
