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“We weep, always, for the hundreds of ways loss lingers in our world.”

Book:Matter of Little Losses: Finding Grace to Grieve the Big (and Small) Things

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“Seldom seen, growing along the ocean floor, the white-plumed anemone is a watery blossom. It is white lace opening under tons of black, opening as if bathed in the sun, while so far from the sun. This is the trick to staying well, isn't it: to feel the sun even in the dark. To not lose the truth of things when they go out of view. To grow just the same. To know there is still water, even when we are thirsty. To know there is still love, even when we are lonely. To know there is still peace, even when we are suffering. None of this invalidates our pain, but only strengthens our way back into the light.”

Grief Grief Counseling

Author:Mark Nepo

“Grief is a strange thing. It shows up in the oddest of places. As time passes, it becomes threaded into your life in a subtle way you don't quite notice at first. When you smile and feel real joy but at the same moment tears spring to your eyes, that's when you know that grief is not absent even in happiness.”

Grief Grief Counseling

Author:Janell Anthony Breckell

“We aren't the lucky ones. Not really. We're just the ones left behind to remember the ones we've lost.”

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Book:River Of Sorrows

Source: River Of Sorrows

“They wouldn't want you to mope, would they? Those who didn't make it. Not after all they did for you, even if they did nothing but die, and unwillingly, and not for you.”

Happiness Death Loss Grief Mourning

Book:Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“Weeping is reserved for those who stay. They weep and the earth weeps with them, the anguish drowned in a sea of shared grief. The exile cries alone, his voice sailing across eons unheeded, until, hitting the ghost of some dead galaxy, it is thrown back to haunt him.”

Grief Refugee Exile

Book:Men of the East and Other Stories

Source: Men of the East and Other Stories

“Why was she being this idiotic about him? He was only a cat. There is no "only a," she told herself. Nothing and no one is "only a.”

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Book:Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“The difference now was that his loss was visible. You wore dead parents inside your body. You wore a dead hand like a badge...”

Death Grief

Book:Tuesday Nights in 1980

Source: Tuesday Nights in 1980

“Be civil if you want victory. Violence is not the solution.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“All the mortal things I had been revering in my life, everything that I was looking up to in awe suddenly came down to eye level in front of me and all the mortal things I had looked down upon and patronized in my life, suddenly rose up to eye level. Now, the world was flat and I was looking it in the eye.”

Loss Grief Transformation Introspection Maturation

Book:Greenlights

Source: Greenlights

“There was a volcano brewing inside me, I was pretending having the time of my life. Laughing with my family, hugging my three year old niece, following my to-do list, taking care of my skin. But while I was acting like I was at the Mardi Gras, inside there was a funeral going on.”

Loss Grief Anxiety Mourning Arya Kashyap That Ll Be Our Song

Book:That’ll Be Our Song

Source: That’ll Be Our Song

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