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“Our humanity ends where our words about humanity end. Without a name, we have nothing to lose and nothing to grieve.”

Book:The Limits of My World

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“Year two taught me that I now had time on my side. We weren’t in a race to survive. Life was about slowing down to see the individual ripples and marvel at the beauty in the raindrops and budding flowers spread across my path. Until another giant wave hits you and you get smashed all over again.”

Grief Grief And Loss

Book:Riding the Waves: A Memoir of Love, Loss, & Grief

Source: Riding the Waves: A Memoir of Love, Loss, & Grief

“Being courageous enough to sit with someone who is grieving is a gift that shouldn’t be undervalued.”

Grief Grieving

Book:Riding the Waves: A Memoir of Love, Loss, & Grief

Source: Riding the Waves: A Memoir of Love, Loss, & Grief

“Authenticity is revealed not in words, but in the quiet gestures of everyday life.”

Life Lessons Mindfulness Authenticity Observation Human Behavior

Book:In the Spaces We Don't Talk About: A Companion For the Upspoken Truth We Carry

Source: In the Spaces We Don't Talk About: A Companion For the Upspoken Truth We Carry

“You and I both know there's no end to grief. The solution is to find a way to live alongside it, rather than allowing it to lead you by its leash.”

Grief Mourning Grief And Loss Grief Quotes

Book:The City of Dusk

Source: The City of Dusk

“Britt-Marie cries out. Falls to the ground. And lies there under the weight of a human being, who no longer exists.”

Death Grief Grief And Loss

Book:Britt-Marie Was Here

Source: Britt-Marie Was Here

“She thought how curious it was that responses such as this--emotions, even--could run parallel with but quite separate from unhappiness. I am unhappy all the time, she thought, and that is a total occupation, but some other part of me still goes on working. I still see that things are beautiful, or significant, and that prompts a feeling. I can be angry, or pleased. But all this with detachment, as though it happened to someone else. It is as though half of me were some stranger, living independently.”

Feelings Grief Emotions Mourning Emptiness Unhappiness Bereavement Detachment

Book:Perfect Happiness

Source: Perfect Happiness

“Benji är en man som älskar män, och alla han älskar förlorar han.”

Romance Grief Gay Lgbtq

Book:Us Against You

Source: Us Against You

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

Love Grief

Book:Stella Maris

Source: Stella Maris

“The sound of you not here rolls through me like never-ending thunder.”

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Author:Dr. Toni Sorenson

“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

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