“For me, being a survivor has made me a reluctant participant/observer in my own inner struggle between wanting that to be the most important fact of my life and wanting it to be the least important.”
Source: No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
“Impossible grief applies to cases where the grief-processing mechanism has been obstructed, like a clog in a drain.”
Source: Bright Young Women
“Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that.”
Source: Bright Young Women
“True love is deeper than any grave.”
Source: Burn the Girls
“for like infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.”
Source: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.”
Source: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“I know what it feels like to lose someone you love. To feel as if you're left behind, or like your life is in shambles and there's no guidebook to tell you how to stitch it back together.
But time will slowly heal you, as it is doing for me. There are good days and there are difficult days. Your grief will never fully fade; it will always be with you - a shadow you carry in your soul - but it will become fainter as your life becomes brighter. You will learn to live outside of it again, as impossible as that may sound.”
Source: Divine Rivals
“When people get hurt physically, you can see it in the bruises and the scars, but when they’re hurt emotionally, mentally, it runs deeper than that. You can see every sleepless night in the reflection of their eyes; you can see every tear stained into their cheeks, every bout of anger etched into the cresses in their foreheads.”
Source: A Flicker in the Dark
“I am trying to leave a man I still love, or I am trying to stop loving a man I have left. In one of these I had succeeded, but as I lay awake, it was hard to tell in which.”
Source: Thirst for Salt
“Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fallen ill, Ma had asked for Natalie, and they were forced to lie, to say that she had gone out to the market and would be back in a few hours, just to calm Ma until she forgot again. The sisters looked at one another, examined their nails, then finally met Natalie's gaze.
"No," they said. "She doesn't talk about you" (Heng 261).”
Source: The Great Reclamation