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“Grief is one big, gaping hole, isnt it? Its everywhere and all consuming. Some days you think you cant go on because the only thing waiting for you is more despair. Some days you dont want to go on...”
“Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand,Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.Remember me when no more day by day You tell me ...”
“If, as a culture, we dont bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to le...”
“The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.”
“Mrs. Allan's face was not the face of the girlbride whom the minister had brought to Avonlea five years before. It had lost some of its bloom and youthful curves, and there were fine, patient lines...”
“Steven and I had always come to the market to check out the fresh flowers, so when Friday came around with the fresh roses, I always stood in the middle of it all, breathing in the memories and bre...”
“All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.”
“Some people walk into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts. Others walk into our lives and we want to leave footprints on their face!”
“Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said onl...”
“Has your life ever been so messed up that you wondered how you would survive another day?”
“You're too damn beautiful for your own good.Hell,you're too damn beautiful for my own good”
“As David Zucker watched the casket of his late wife being lowered into the ground, he thought the worst must surely be over and it was time to start the slow healing process to begin life anew.”
“Because it was all I wanted to fucking know. It was all I wanted to know in this fucking world: where did the beautiful boys go? Where did the beautiful boys go? Where the hell did they go?”
“Where did my friend go? Was there a place they all gathered, the lost and self destructive? Was there a room they put them in? Necks burnt with rope or holes in their skulls. Beach-water bloated. I...”
“But love is this really powerful thing that everyone's got if they'd just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it's something we all have to give, and if it's something we all want, doesn't ...”
“People who fall in love can fall out of it.”
“My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.”
“In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing.”
“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will lessen as time passes, but it isnt true. Sorrow and loss are consta...”
“Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isnt a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.”
