“What continues to surprise me, and what I still don't understand, is not the reason that love ends but the way that it endures.” LoveLossGrief Book:Thirst for Salt Source: Thirst for Salt
“In this way my love for him mirrored my mother's love for my father, which, despite their separation, had endured--call it habit, call it time, call it memory, the memory of love. It's not so easy, after wall, to cut that invisible thread.” LoveLossGriefBreakup Book:Thirst for Salt Source: Thirst for Salt
“We are taught that love is not so different from hatred, that instead of opposites, the two extremes of the human heart might in fact be twins. But it's grief, really, that is love's twin, that knows no bounds of time or space. Wave after wave it keeps coming, whereas hatred cools, fades. So many times I swore that I loved Jude, that no one had ever loved or been loved this way before, and then something broke through, a new depth. Colder and darker moved the waters of my love. Thinking, in those first few days after, of something [my mother] once sad: There is no end to grief, because there is no end to love.” LoveLossGrief Book:Thirst for Salt Source: Thirst for Salt
“Do you still love Jude? I think a part of me always will. It always feels that way at first, she said. But it will stop. I promise. And I didn't know then if that was better, if I even wanted it to. At the time, that seemed to be like the saddest thing.” LossGriefBreakup Book:Thirst for Salt Source: Thirst for Salt
“What I remember is that one morning, she was gone. I'm not sure for how long, for time in the absence of someone you love cannot be measured in the same way as regular time.” LossGrief Book:Thirst for Salt Source: Thirst for Salt
“I am trying to leave a man I still love, or I am trying to stop loving a man I have left. In one of these I had succeeded, but as I lay awake, it was hard to tell in which.” LoveLossGriefBreakup Book:Thirst for Salt Source: Thirst for Salt