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“She was not ready to face a familiar world in which something so precious was missing.”

Book:A Dangerous Place

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A Dangerous Place

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Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear is a British author renowned for her detective novel series. Her works are characterized by historical background and complex character development, which have won her a wide readership. more

“She wanted to be woken by daylight, to hear the gulls above the rooftops; she wanted to know as soon as her eyelids lifted that she was not back in the past. She hated waking only to experience the jolt of remembering why her heart felt so heavy in her chest. The light might allow the ache of recollection to enfold her gently.”

Grief Grief And Loss Grief Process

Book:A Dangerous Place

Source: A Dangerous Place

“Now she could feel herself slipping back, as if she had managed to climb almost to the top of grief's dark void, only to lose her strength, her fingernails ceasing to hold.”

Grief Grief And Loss Grief Process

Book:A Dangerous Place

Source: A Dangerous Place

“Everything was better because she was here, and now she's not, and I don't want this world without her. I don't want anything if I can't share it with her.”

Grief

Book:The Bone Witch

Source: The Bone Witch

“The look he gave her reminded her of the sorrowful way the windows of The Crows had stared down at her before its restoration, broken panes and empty frames expressing grief it had no words for, a house full of stories but no one to tell.”

Stories House Grief

Book:The Crows

Source: The Crows

“The idea that grief gets heavier the longer you carry it alone is one that has helped me.”

Grief

Book:Something in the Walls

Source: Something in the Walls

“I couldn’t see a life lived without her. I couldn’t envision a world in which she ceased to exist.”

Death Mother Grief Anticipatory Grief

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“Own the memories, don’t let them own you.”

Loss Grief Recovery

Book:Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“The stability I had previously taken for granted was replaced by the pain that arrives when you learn that someone you love is going to die. It was a deep sense of foreboding, a bodily knowledge of things to come that you would do just about anything to avoid.”

Death Grief Anticipatory Grief

Book:Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

Source: Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“Things may be difficult right now, but your time of victory will come. Do not give up!”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“...with Farrell beside me, I had an ally and a history, someone who knew everything about me and loved me anyway. Without him I became, for the first time, truly old. I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to be anywhere. I wondered, how do people get through this, and I knew instantly: they don't.”

Love Grief

Author:Paul Rudnick

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