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“For all these years, her heart had painted the picture for her. Her child-not a figment of her imagination, but her child in the world. The picture that her heart painted was real.”

Book:The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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Kelly Barnhill

Kelly Barnhill is a talented author born in 1973. Her works are known for their imaginative storytelling and emotional depth. more

“Don’t think. Sweep away the words, ideas, images swirling endlessly in the infernal dance of pitiless affliction. Push back the realization of an unspeakable truth for another second. Don’t speak. Don’t move. Hold on to the illusion of purpose for a few seconds. And when those seconds are over, start again, an infinite loop.”

Loss Grief Depression Loss Of A Child

Book:Mothers' Instinct

Source: Mothers' Instinct

“I wonder if everyone, if everything dies twice. If that's how grief is: cyclical, never finished. The Towers are still falling. And falling again.”

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Author:Julie Buxbaum

“Sometimes, victory comes from unexpected places. That is why you need to honour people’s graces.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“This is all I need: grief counselling from my own assassin.”

Grief Science Fiction Short Stories Assassin Axiomatic Greg Egan The Walk Grief Counselling

Book:Axiomatic

Source: Axiomatic

“I’m a part-time artist who doubles as a fairy godmother.” I squeeze my arms around him. “Tell your fairy godmother all your problems, and I’ll make them go away or exact revenge on the devil who deserves a punishment worse than death.”

Grief Mm

Book:The Truth of Our Past

Source: The Truth of Our Past

“Our time with our mother was a past life—some version of ourselves from which we’d become estranged.”

Grief Grief And Loss

Book:Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

Source: Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

“She’d want you to be happy, not suffering. I couldn’t blame them for saying such things, but each time someone said my mother was watching over us and would have wanted us to be happy, I privately disagreed. To have been happy would have been to disrespect her life. After all, we were only just surveying the rubble after the catastrophe. We understood now how everything had shifted: There would be no more visits with our family; no more of her cooking; no more talks about our futures and how we needed to do more; no more burrowing into her shoulders for hugs.”

Grief

Book:Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

Source: Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

“Mothers provide, she often said. I’m the provider . She made a fist and thumped her chest to show her strength. She filled such basic needs for us just by being alive. She was the general. She was the one who strategized our futures and led us to win wars. With her, we were safe.”

Grief Grief And Loss Mothers

Book:Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

Source: Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

“You don't find a way out of grief, you embrace it and it becomes your strength.”

Grief Grieving Grief And Loss Bereavement Grief And Healing

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“What separates angels from ghosts is beauty. To be haunted is to be cared for in reverse. To feel so loved by an absence that you fear it.”

Love Grief Ghosts Angels Haunted

Author:Jen Colclough

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