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“Loss is a part of life, my lord Cassiapeus, and grief is constant. It is unbearable at first. Then you find you can indeed bear it. Over and over again. As many times as necessary.”

Book:Year of the Reaper

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“The loss that now casts its deep shadow over you is also a task to endure and a matter of coming to terms with all of the suffering that may befall us—for once the mother leaves us, we lose all protection. You have to undergo the terrible process of becoming more resilient. But in return... (and you have also begun to feel this already) in return the power of protection now becomes yours, and all the gentleness which until now you had been able to receive will blossom more and more inside of you into your new capacity to share it as something—inherited and acquired unspeakably, at the deepest price—of your own.”

Death Loss Grief Mourning

Book:The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

Source: The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

“We have been more than one year without him, and just now we are starting to see things again.”

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Book:Flower Grand First

Source: Flower Grand First

“Forward is the only motion we know. The only direction that can make sense of the loss, that can perhaps, even one day, restore it.”

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Book:The Lion of the Sea

Source: The Lion of the Sea

“Daar wil ik weer zijn. En nog eens, en nog eens. Ik wil in armen gehouden worden. Ik wil in mijn armen houden.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“Ik weet nog dat ik bang was dat er haast wel iets mis móést gaan als we zo gelukkig waren, zij en ik, in de begintijd, toen onze liefde zich naar de vorm van onze levens voegde zoals cakebeslag in de hoeken van het bakblik kruipt terwijl het rijst en bakt.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“MAN "Dan zou mijn verdriet over zijn?" VOGEL "Nee, zeker niet. Maar je wanhoop was over. Verdriet heb je nog steeds, maar daar heb je geen kraai bij nodig.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“There are countless people I love who are radically altered by their course of treatment, losing more than hair and eyelashes, some marked by ragged scars or amputated limbs. Ours are small, personal losses.”

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Book:No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

“It is irrepressibly familiar, the send that the world is suddenly growing smaller and the time growing shorter. I am heavy with the thought of each person I know who needed these months to wander or rest, find their match or start all over, who need the chance to say every hello and goodbye to each delicious moment, unrestricted.”

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Author:Kate Bowler

“It is a gradual kind of strengthening. It takes a long time to see how the losses build you up, rather than strip you down and wear you away.”

Life Loss Strengthening

Book:The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness: Three Lyrical Short Stories of Texas, Appalachia, and the Untamed American West

Source: The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness: Three Lyrical Short Stories of Texas, Appalachia, and the Untamed American West

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