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“I had five miscarriages before the girls. The babies sort of float around me now. Not them, of course. Maybe just the souls they forgot to take with them. Isn't that something? How the dead never really leave?”

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“She thought of her hand in his, of gripping his worn fingers with her small ones. She thought of an old dead woman in a rocking chair, because her daughter couldn't bear to leave. She thought of the Otherking, leaving his home because he could not stay. And she thought of a mother, holding her dead child and the broken cauldron of rebrith. Her hand tightened araound the broken spoon and she let the jagged waves of grief wash over her.”

Grief

Book:The Bone Houses

Source: The Bone Houses

“Keep the company of positive-minded people who are always happy to see you march into victory, not those intimidated by it.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“When I think about everything that happened in the last year my mind goes hot, and blank, and I can't think about it properly or sort it all out in my head. None of it makes sense, especially now, trying to piece it all together.”

Grief

Book:The Guest List

Source: The Guest List

“I inhale with the waves flooding the shore. They are easy. They are mine. I can feel my heartbeat slowing. Bea may be in Queens underground, but for now, she is here. We are little girls again, on this shore together. Just for a moment.”

Grief Ocean Sister Love

Book:The Queens of New York

Source: The Queens of New York

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