“Yes, she was lovely. But more than that, she was warm and funny and loving. Hot-tempered one moment, and laughing the next. And she could make a home anywhere. She carried a sort of security about with her. I can't think of a single person who didn't love her. I still think about her every day of my life. Sometimes she seems very dead. And other times, I can't believe that she isn't somewhere in the house and that a door won't open and she'll be there.” LoveHomeMotherLossGriefFamily Book:The Shell Seekers Source: The Shell Seekers
“It was going to be all right. There were to be no histrionics. For this deliverance Olivia was deeply grateful, but she felt sad too, because it is always sad when someone you have known as a child finally grows up, and you know that they will never be truly young again.” GriefGrowing Up Book:The Shell Seekers Source: The Shell Seekers
“She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.” YearsFeelingsWould BePastRememberFacesLeftGriefEmptyGratefulRememberedAccomplishedBitternessAgonyHealer Book:The Shell Seekers Source: The Shell Seekers
“Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.” BitsWalksGriefRest Of Your LifeFunny ThingsRoadside Book:September Source: September
“Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.” LooksTurnsSidesWalksForgetGriefAcceptingTerribleLaysBurdenAcceptedPaceAntonia Book:The Shell Seekers Source: The Shell Seekers
