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“And, despite his assiduous preparation, it had taken him by surprise. You can think something often enough, but you will never be prepared for your heart disintegrating.”

Book:We Solve Murders

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We Solve Murders

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“Only the loss remains which can never be recuperated. The event is over. The event has been overcome and yet the loss is only beginning. Every day it grows deeper. More and more is forgotten. Less and less is really known for certain. And nothing will ever bring his father back from the realm of memory into the reassuringly concrete world of material fact. Tangible and specific fact. And how - how is it possible to accept this or even to understand what it means?”

Grief Grief And Loss

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“I feel maybe I still don't accept it. The idea that my dad is gone. I don't really get how it could be the case. [...] Like he just sort of exited from time. And we just have to keep going within time.”

Grief Grief And Loss

Book:Intermezzo

Source: Intermezzo

“Because grief is like that, shifting the context of all your memories. It sneaks up on you in the middle of a happy reconciliation, tinging everything, casting a shadow, robbing you of everything that used to be good.”

Grief Fantasy

Book:The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine

Source: The Unraveling of Emlyn DuLaine

“And the beautiful bird broke into song, and although it was not a song any bird would recognize, the Strange Bird could understand it and whatever remained of Sanji inside of her recognized it and responded, and the two birds sang one to the other, the dead communicating to the dead in that intimate language.”

Nature Grief Communication Transformation Intimacy Connection Rebirth Haunting Beauty

Book:The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

Source: The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“Whatever the mind believes, the body has a better chance of becoming. An absolute diagnosis is therefore not only false, but also unhelpful.”

Humor Grief Grief And Loss Disability Chronic Illness Medical Trauma

Book:Suddenly Silent and Still

Source: Suddenly Silent and Still

“MALCOLM Dispute it like a man. MACDUFF I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man; I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.”

Grief Revenge Avengement

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“The mornings ushering in each day, the evenings that daily darken, became shrines.”

Death Grief

Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“... grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”

Grief

Book:The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

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