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“Success can be a storm that drowns the whispers of your soul. Listen closely, or you'll be carried away by the winds of others' expectations.”

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“Sometimes you just meet the right person at the wrong time, I say softly. Yeah, he says. And then you spend every day afterward wishing that time could be rearranged.”

Love Loss Timing Is Everything

Book:One Day in December

Source: One Day in December

“Not wanting him to go was an emotion produced by me, not him. He’d witnessed me having and failing to smother a feeling, and said he’d noticed - and he profited, not me.”

Love Loss Emotional

Book:Exciting Times

Source: Exciting Times

“I liked Chicago. The cold of it. The anonymity of it. I could be anyone. I put on Converse sneakers and walked along the gritty sidewalks, which seemed to contain just a dash of carbonation. I bounced. I felt like I could become the person I wanted to be. Not a cheater, not a depressive, not a recipient of cosmic justice. But a person with a happy home at home. But on nights when Heather was gone, gone with her boyfriend across town, when the city light poured in purple through the window, I'd realize I could not ignore the reality of it all. The emptiness of my life. An emptiness that was only growing wider and colder as I warmed by the light of my hope. And so. I was desperate. Simply put. I was desperate to come up with some way of continuing forward on what looked like a doomed mission.”

Loss Grief Lonliness Existential Crisis

Book:Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Source: Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“...but already I know, this is not a feeling. This is a growth. Inoperable, benign but painfully pressing on a vital organ. It will be with me, hurting me and not killing me, all my life.”

Feelings Loss Grief Emotions Mourning

Book:The Favorite Sister

Source: The Favorite Sister

“My gun was a mouth that could not stop yelling, and he just stood there, empty as a stolen child, not even this dream big enough for the two of us.”

Loss Dreams Siblings

Book:Keep This to Yourself

Source: Keep This to Yourself

“I experienced a great tragedy at a young age and I thought that was me done, I got it over and done with. In a world of infinite possibilities, I should have known there is no end to the loss that we can experience, but neither is there to the knowledge and growth that arises because of it and in spite of it.”

Growth Loss Tragedy

Book:Postscript

Source: Postscript

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosened upon the world.”

Loss Core Fall Apart

Author:W.B. Yeats

“That's the Zach I wanted back. The son I knew and loved. But it seemed almost greedy to long for that. He was alive. Shouldn't I be grateful? How dare I say it wasn't enough?”

Loss Grief Guilt

Book:Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is

Source: Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is

“It became all the more obvious that people--no matter their age or what brought them to that place--grieve in different ways and on different timetables.”

Loss Grief Mourning

Book:Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is

Source: Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is

“We functioned. We remained committed to each other. But how was it that we felt so disconnected when permanently connected by a shared tragedy?”

Loss Grief Marriage Mourning

Book:Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is

Source: Hit Hard: One Family's Journey of Letting Go of What Was--and Learning to Live Well with What Is