“When I met your mother, it felt like she'd filled a small piece of the hole that Tony'd left behind. Certainly, her love took the edges off his loss a bit. It was like bubble wrap in a way. Keeping him safe and settled within me, the sharpness gone. But as mad as it sounds, I sort of resented her for robbing that little bit of him from me.”
Source: When All Is Said
“A vida dela até aquele momento tinha parecido tão original, um conto tecido elegantemente, com um elenco brilhante de personagens - ela: a princesa sem mãe de um palácio vertical, o apartamento de quatro andares na Ilha Victoria; eles: amigos fervorosos e glamurosos de seu pai, os empregados; ele: o rei viúvo do castelo. Se tivesse tido uma morte apropriada à vida deles como ela a conhecia - em um acidente de carro, por exemplo, em seu amado Deux Chevaux, ou de câncer de fígado ou pulmão, até o fim fumando Caos e engolindo rum -, ela poderia ter tolerado a perda. Teria ficado em luto. Teria se descoberto uma órfã em um apartamento de quatro andares, depois de perder ambos os pais aos treze anos, mas teria sido, enlutada dessa forma, uma coisa que ela reconheceria (trágica) em vez daquilo que se tornou: uma parte da história (genérica).”
Source: Ghana Must Go
“God is great! In times of pain, He gives power. In times of sickness, He provides healing and after a loss, He is able to restore what was lost.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“In every room this is still
your house, your history.
And if in the morning I rise
like a ghost, outside it is still
winter and sun bright, and snow
like the memory of a long rain.”
“If I am
What survives I am here but I am not
Much of anything at all To be what’s left
And all the rest scooped out”
“Если слишком сильно беспокоиться об ожиданиях окружающих на ваш счёт, можно прожить чью угодно жизнь, кроме своей.”
Source: Нежно-денежно. Книга о деньгах и душевном спокойствии
“After the adrenaline of the disaster has passed and we face the dreariness of loss, despair lurks around the corner. Unable to attribute our misfortune to random chance, we wonder what we did wrong. Homes gone, dependent on the goodwill of strangers, fearing financial ruin perhaps with loved ones killed, we look for someone to blam, we turn to the outsider. A disaster can alter the behavior of the individual, like one who is part of a mob, divorcing us from our moral compass. We must remember the most dangerous threat in a disaster is the threat to our humanity.”
Source: The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
“If we are afraid of the pain of grief, we will be afraid of confrontation. We may not leave relationships that should be left for fear of grief. We may be reluctant to enter into relationships that should be entered into for fear of them not working and the consequent suffering. Love, surprisingly, helps to heal the loss of love. Not the soppy love of romantics. Not the self-seeking love of infatuated would-be lovers. Not weak, needy love, but real love. It says, “No matter what, I will do what is best for you, me, my child, my friend, and those I dedicate my love to. If that is painful, I will still choose it.”
Source: Love's Longing
“The thought didn't hurt the way it had, she realized. Not that the loss was gone, but it had receded, somehow, drowned out not by any particular thing but by the normal press of living.”
Source: The Sum Of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound
“Death is absolute: either you're dead or you're not.”
Source: The Way Through the Woods: Overcoming Grief Through Nature