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“Affairs of the heart are entitled to some confidentiality.”

Book:Stella Maris

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Stella Maris

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Cormac McCarthy

American novelist known for his profound literary style and rich imagination. His notable works include 'The Border Trilogy' and 'No Country for Old Men'. more

“Oh my God,’ said Ellen, and Zhen thought: Yes, this is how it begins. This is how you know you’re grieving. When the whole thing strikes you as absolutely outrageous, when you’re angry with your own mother for fucking letting cancer take her and leaving you, that’s when you know you’re in it.”

Grief Anger Cancer

Book:The Future

Source: The Future

“She was obsessed, isolated, locked within herself, in feverish pursuit. She knew that something disastrous was happening to her, that possibly she was going mad, and she knew also that if she ceased for one moment to think about Steven, to carry him with her in her head, she might lose him. He was dead; he only existed in recollection; when recollection ceased even that tenuous existence would be gone. A name, no more. Like the host of names on the white tombstones of Bunhill Fields burial ground; the silent army beneath the soil.”

Death Memories Loss Grief Memory Mourning Remembrance Bereavement Recollections

Book:Perfect Happiness

Source: Perfect Happiness

“Something in him screamed for someone to notice him, someone to see him for what he was, what he needed. Someone to take him aside and remind him that he was still loved--to show him where he needed correction. To see him.”

Grief Self Esteem Depression Introvert

Book:Strength in Measure

Source: Strength in Measure

“...the purpose of the pain is to just feel it, to not run, to let it pass through you, to honor the love you had, so you can let go just a bit and create space for even more love to come your way.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Rana Joon and the One and Only Now

Source: Rana Joon and the One and Only Now

“Your name, your efforts, your duas are known in the heavens. You matter more than you realize.”

Wisdom Life Lessons Hope Light Quotes

Author:Zainab Rafi

“You have found me. And now you must release me. You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all of you.”

Nature Grief Mission

Book:The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Murder was one moment. Grieving was forever.”

Death Grief Forever Murder Grieving Mourning Mourn

Book:The Lifecycle of Suns

Source: The Lifecycle of Suns

“That night, you turn in your bed to watch the moon rise, and once more see what a small coin it is against the darkness, and how everything else is a mystery, and you know nothing at all except the moonlight is beautiful – white rivers running together along the bare boughs of the trees – and somewhere, for someone, life is becoming moment by moment unbearable. (From Beaver Moon – The Suicide of a Friend, in Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver)”

Grief Depression Suicide

Book:Twelve Moons

Source: Twelve Moons

“Amid all of my diligence and ambition, I’ve never received any answers, I am left ignorant about the family that died before I knew them”

Poetry Grief Depression Confusion Enigma

Book:For the Intellect

Source: For the Intellect

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