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“Ich will keine Blumen bei meiner Beerdigung", sagte er zu mir, ohne zu ahnen, daß ich am nächsten Tag dafür sorgen mußte, daß keine gestreut würden.”

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Gabriel García Márquez

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“I thought about having a child, naming it after you. Then I realized that child would never know its namesake & that it’s not fair to want someone just because you want someone else. Instead I named other things for you: seasons with the most holidays, the sky’s face seven seconds before or after it hails, the sound a heart hears when it is half returned, the first time I won a fight, anytime I lose anything.”

Death Loss Grief Naming

Book:Urbanshee

Source: Urbanshee

“After the funeral, I see him everywhere. Every time a man is shot in the head. I see him between the couch cushions. The blunt’s end, in Jamaica drinking a Red Stripe on a patch of grass, in a backyard drunk with witches dancing to Motown. Screaming from my mouth. In my lupus diagnosis. Laying in the cracks of my knuckles. Knock, knock, who’s there?”

Death Loss Grief

Book:Urbanshee

Source: Urbanshee

“We have free will, and with that comes great responsibility. And sometimes great loss.”

Loss Grief Free Will

Author:HaroldFinch

“Victory is for those who never settle for crumbs, those who never sit and whine, or those who never give up in the fight.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“Yet on each occasion these pleas for his presence served to reinforce my awareness of the final silence that separated us.”

Grief

Book:The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“It’s not an identical pain that we all meet one day when death finds us. It’s a monster, personalized by our love and memories to devour us just so. Grief is suffering, tailored.”

Grief

Book:Bloodmarked

Source: Bloodmarked

“Yeah, Bug. It’s only been a few months since Jules died. And I know you’re doing better, but grief is like the ocean. Sometimes it’s just lapping quietly at your toes and ankles while you walk along, but other times, a huge wave will come out of nowhere and pull you under.”

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Book:Remind Me to Hate You Later

Source: Remind Me to Hate You Later

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