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“When you miss someone, they leave a person-shaped hole behind in the world that nothing can ever fill. If you don't keep thinking about them, the edges of the hole shrink and fade. You can't let go or the last of them disappears.”

Book:Devine Intervention

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“The dirty secret she’d learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after the funeral. People you’d once considered friends would turn their heads in church or cross to another side of a shopping mall to avoid the contamination of your suffering. “You might imagine I’m coping day by day,” she murmured. “But it’s more a case of hour by hour, and during my worst times, minute by minute.”

Grief Grieving Coping Suffring

Book:The Voice I Just Heard

Source: The Voice I Just Heard

“Why do most people look outside themselves for approval, when the most important approval or happiness comes from within?”

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Author:Chris J. Hamilton

“The train blows through town delivering reality, slapping my face and screaming, “You are alone” Rose colored memories drown, taking their last breath.”

Death Memories Loss Grief Sadness Loneliness Depression Grieving

Book:Magic in the Backyard

Source: Magic in the Backyard

“I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you. And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you. No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart) No, I don't want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart) With you (This world is only gonna break your heart) What a wicked game to play, to make me feel this way. What a wicked thing to do, to let me dream of you. What a wicked thing to say, you never felt this way. What a wicked thing to do, to make me dream of you and, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart) No, I want to fall in love (This world is only gonna break your heart) With you.”

Grieving Broken Heart Sadness Love

Author:Chris Isaak

“The pain of your loss will return. Less, but still considerable. I know you've worked hard to release it, but it can still take hold of you. I will help you sing away the fury, but I will not bear it for you.”

Loss Grief Grieving

Book:Wisp of a Thing

Source: Wisp of a Thing

“He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time for Filipino activists—a time when a hundred flowers bloomed and a thousand thoughts contended in a movement that did not know yet the price of betrayal from within. But flowers wilt and thoughts give way to rancor with the passing of years. And so some may grieve not his passing, while others fall to the ground in tears./FOR HORACIO BOY MORALES, JR. (September 11, 1943 – February 29, 2012)”

Revolution Grieving Activists Revolutionary Movement Horacio Boy Morales

Author:Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

“He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.”

Grief Enemy Grieving Enemies Adversary Wept

Author:Donna Lynn Hope

“The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.”

Grieving Mourning

Book:Rules For Old Men Waiting

Source: Rules For Old Men Waiting

“Time is a treasure, given only to those who value it.”

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Author:Elena Levon

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