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“But that's just it; I can either focus on what I have lost, or what I have gained, and I choose the latter.”
“She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?”
“No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.”
“Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief.”
“Something about Tilos new home reminded Musa of the story of Mumtaz Afzal Malik, the young taxi driver whom Amrik Singh had killed, whose body had been recovered from a field and delivered to his f...”
“For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.”
“I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's...”
“A memory of her father flitted through her consciousness. The time he played a slow, melodic tune on the saxophone in the misty rain of the yard on a summers night, surrounded by the patios twinkli...”
“There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. U...”
“What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.”
“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shameful...”
“Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.”
“He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he look...”
“My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.”
“Perhaps ... To R.A.L.Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel one more I do not live in vain,Although bereft of you.Perhaps the golden meadow...”
“There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadnt learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart.”
“13) Have you had your own, personal earthquake? Here is what it feels like. Your insides feel like they are stretched, ready to explode. And from outside, there is a crushing pressure that is holdi...”
“Surviving makes other peoples tears unbearable. You might drown in them.”
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”
“A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you o...”
