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“I cried as if I'd been assigned to cry the unshed tears of three people, instead of one. My mother, lost in the abyss, my father, lost without her, and me, lost without either of them.”

Book:The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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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.”

Life Grief Feelings And Emotions Rd16

Book:Remind Me to Hate You Later

Source: Remind Me to Hate You Later

“It hasn’t been that long since Jules died—a little more than four months now. Sometimes it feels like it was yesterday. Sometimes it feels like it’s been a year. But it only takes a moment to remember how it felt to hear that she was gone. And I know that pain will linger forever.”

Life Grief Feelings And Emotions Rd16

Book:Remind Me to Hate You Later

Source: Remind Me to Hate You Later

“A friend told me once that grief is the cost of love,” she says. “It’s a pretty steep price, but it’s worth paying. Because the love doesn’t go away either.”

Life Grief Feelings And Emotions Rd16

Book:Remind Me to Hate You Later

Source: Remind Me to Hate You Later

“It seemed like the only voice Mama had left spoke in Arabic. Even when the neighbor ladies brought casseroles and white carnations, Mama swallowed her words. How come people only ever have one language for grief?”

Grief

Book:The Map of Salt and Stars

Source: The Map of Salt and Stars

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