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“I closed my eyes and traced my mother's face against my memory for the ten thousandth time.”

Book:The Inheritance Trilogy Series 3 Books Set – The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, and The Kingdom of Gods

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“But it’s not consolation she wants. On the contrary, she is looking for precise words, forgotten facts - or maybe new ones - that will inflame her pain and grief over he big sister, whose death had claimed a portion of her own youth. Yes, she has a clear desire to breathe life into her loss and crack open the crust of forgetfulness that has begun to envelop her.”

Loss Grief Memory

Book:Friendly Fire

Source: Friendly Fire

“When you walk in the light, you have the authority to command victory in your life.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“Grief is like a perennial stream that flows unaffected, as the layers of glacier that sit within our hearts get thicker each moment.”

Grief Grief And Loss

Book:Just One Goodbye: Poems from the Heart

Source: Just One Goodbye: Poems from the Heart

“Relief+Grief: The intense pain that someone, something, or an idea is gone forever, mixed with sweet relief that you also no longer have that problem or issue in your life anymore.”

Death Grief Relief Funeral Challenge

Book:Naked

Source: Naked

“The whole experience is disappointing,” Lionel Vayne agreed. “What you want at a funeral is drama. Wailing into hankies and tearing at clothes. Weeping mourners throwing themselves on to the coffins. I’d give the whole thing three out of ten.”

Humor Death Grief Funeral

Book:Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull

Source: Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull

“I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly, New Peeple; yea, another Sky And Sun, which seen by Day Might things more clear display. Just such another Of late my Brother Did in his Travel see, & saw by Night, A much more strange & wondrous Sight: Nor could the World exhibit such another, So Great a Sight, but in a Brother. Adventure strange! No such in Story we New or old, tru or feigned, see. On Earth he seem'd to mov Yet Heven went abov; Up in the Skies His Body flies In open, visible, yet Magick, sort: As he along the Way did sport, Over the Flood he takes his nimble Cours Without the help of feigned Horse. As he went tripping o'r the King's high-way, A little pearly River lay O'r which, without a Wing Or Oar, he dar'd to swim, Swim throu the Air On Body fair; He would not use nor trust Icarian Wings Lest they should prov deceitful things; For had he faln, it had been wondrous high, Not from, but from abov, the Sky: He might hav dropt throu that thin Element Into a fathomless Descent; Unto the nether Sky That did beneath him ly, And there might tell What Wonders dwell On Earth abov. Yet doth he briskly run, And bold the Danger overcom; Who, as he leapt, with Joy related soon How happy he o'r-leapt the Moon.”

Grief Brother Positivity Flowery

Book:Traherne's Poems of Felicity

Source: Traherne's Poems of Felicity

“...But age and grief are both blunt weapons. And they’ve worked her over pretty well.”

Grief Aging

Book:Killers of a Certain Age

Source: Killers of a Certain Age

“I never felt close to death myself, but I knew it better than anyone else. I sat with it every day, stroking its hand, chatting to it, even laughing with it. Yet, I never quite understood it. It was as if death had employed me as its secretary, and as such, a certain level of respect was to be given.”

Death Loss Grief Depression Nurse Hospital

Book:The Dream To End All Dreams

Source: The Dream To End All Dreams

“The sun had disappeared behind the hill and the sky had faded to violet hues. This once common sight of my childhood had now become a simple reminder to me. A reminder of the past. What I could have done, what I should’ve done and what I could’ve been. I often wondered if I was wrong to honour the memory of the days that had slipped on by. After all, the body of today had fallen, but it was still breathing. Was I wrong to mourn something still alive?”

Grief Childhood Nostalgia

Book:The Dream To End All Dreams

Source: The Dream To End All Dreams

“Everything was as it was. My dad's tools, laid out as if he were coming back. Everything as it was before, but missing the most important piece. I stared at it all, aching from the empty silence. It wasn’t his death that hurt me, it was the things that proved he was alive.”

Death Loss Grief

Book:The Dream To End All Dreams

Source: The Dream To End All Dreams

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