“Mum!' I screamed into the darkness. The word that causes me the most pain. The word that, to everyone else, brings the opposite. Brings them warmth, and love, and light, and understanding, and stability and security.”
Source: How Hard Can Love Be?
“Some victories come when some people decide to abandon you. While it may seem like rejection, it is a victory making its way to you.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“If words could express the grief of my heart,
Even the stones would weep.”
“I'd done it for months now-the dizzying dance between grief and normalcy and the guilt I felt in moving between the two.”
Source: The Start of Me and You
“Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with - none so much as you.”
Source: Boy Friends
“Even that pain is a kind of pleasure, to feel so loved, to love so deeply.”
Source: Happy Place
“I grieved my situation; I grieved the fact that the fines existed and I was to be held to some higher standard. I grieved my arrests and fines and penalties with ferocity, but I did not grieve the actions that got me into these circumstances. I grieved my pain but I did not grieve my sin. In fact, I did not believe in sin, so I let it continue to destroy my life as I hopelessly, cluelessly, and despondently wondered what on earth was wrong. I repeated the same mistakes, feeling bad for myself, hating the consequences, but never changing a thing.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“I was grieved that my life had come to this point; it had all happened so quickly. I just found myself running from one thing to the next and the things I was using to cope started more problems in and of themselves. The cycle spiraled out of control when one coping mechanism created consequences that led to the next coping mechanism, which created consequences, and on and on, without ever addressing the hurt and confusion inside.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“Her grief had felt so heavy and she had wanted to find somewhere to put it, a container big enough and strong enough and old enough to hold it.
She'd wanted to share it.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“I'd learned the hard way that when people ask you how you're doing after a loved one's death, they don't really want to know. They want to hear that you've moved on because they can't stand to look at your pain. And when I didn't move on, the emails gradually trickled to nothing.”
Source: The Collected Regrets of Clover