“In the pain of my loss, I gave you the pain of absence.” LossGriefAbandonment Book:The Ten Thousand Doors of January Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“I cried as if I'd been assigned to cry the unshed tears of three people, instead of one. My mother, lost in the abyss, my father, lost without her, and me, lost without either of them.” LossGriefTears Book:The Ten Thousand Doors of January Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“I lay in bed, feeling the champagne tide retreating and leaving me beached, like some unfortunate sea creature. In its absence the Thing--heavy, black, suffocating--returned, as if it had been waiting all evening for the two of us to be alone. It slid oil-slick over my skin, filled my nostrils, pooled at the back of my throat. It whispered in my ear, stories about loss and loneliness and little orphan girls.” LossGrief Book:The Ten Thousand Doors of January Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January