“Hair loss wasn’t vanity. It was grief for the woman I remembered when I looked in the mirror.”
Source: One in Eight: A Breast Cancer Journey and Practical Guide for Patients, Families, and Workplaces
“We talked about her as though she was still there, just 'unavailable.”
Source: Code Talker
“Her death had crushed my heart and all I wanted to do was burrow and hide, to be solitarily numb. Yet the more I burrowed, the more she was there — inside my brain, inside my soul.”
Source: Resting in My Soul: Tracing Threads of Myth and Memory
“One day, you will look back and thank God for the doors He closed on you. You will realize that His intentions were good.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“I bet Giyu wished that he'd died. I understand so well it hurts. When someone dies, someone who is so important that you wish they'd lived instead of you, and they died protecting you... It feels like you're being ripped apart. - Tanjiro”
Source: 鬼滅の刃 15 [Kimetsu no Yaiba 15]
“She was the only adult in my life who showed me any affection. Who never tried to shape me into anything other than exactly myself. She saw me, she loved me, It felt like the two of us against the world and when I lost her it was just me, standing alone.”
“... you aren't something I want to heal from.”
Source: Heap Earth Upon It
“I'm very independent, but I didn't realize how much my mom was my center of gravity until she died. She had such a large presence in life; it's no wonder why her absence left such a large void. I had to learn to become my own center once she was gone.”
Source: Healing After the Loss of Your Mother: A Grief & Comfort Manual
“When nothing softens the grief, may the grief soften me.”
“Only the soul, obsessed with the journey it had made, and had still to make, pursued its mysterious and dreadful end; and carried, heavy with weeping and bitterness, the heart along.”
Source: Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin (4-Oct-2001) Paperback